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From: jeff@onion.pdx.com (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can NFS server not responding trash vi?
Keywords: vi trashed
Message-ID: <1990Jul28.151900.11288@onion.pdx.com>
Date: 28 Jul 90 15:19:00 GMT
References: <1384@ziggy.EDU>
Reply-To: jeff@onion.pdx.com
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In article <1384@ziggy.EDU> ssi@ziggy.EDU (Ssi) writes:
> 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


Using softmounted NFS filesystems,  yes it's possible.  The mount can
timeout with a soft mount.

Using hard mounted filesystems, it shouldn't happen.  (If the 'intr'
option is set and the user hits their interupt character (usually ^C or DEL)
then all bets are off. :-)



	-Jeff
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Jeff Beadles	jeff@onion.pdx.com		jeff@quark.wv.tek.com