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From: ssi@ziggy.EDU (Ssi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Can NFS server not responding trash vi?
Keywords: vi trashed
Message-ID: <1384@ziggy.EDU>
Date: 25 Jul 90 00:16:30 GMT
Organization: University of South Florida, Tampa, Fl
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 I have a Sun 3/160 serving 5 diskless clients.
We get a fair share of `NFS server not responding..'
messages. Sometimes when a user writes a large file
(250000 bytes) from `vi' the file gets trashed.
This seems to happen when the write encounters an
NFS error. The last time this happened there where
several `spurious level 4 interrupt' errors on the server
console, I don't recall seeing these on the other
occasions.
 I'm running SunOS 3.5

                      Greg Ripp ssi@ziggy.edu