Xref: utzoo comp.sys.hp:5978 comp.unix.questions:24870 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!decwrl!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!rvdp From: rvdp@cs.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: NFS mounts - hard versus soft - info. wanted Message-ID: <7353@star.cs.vu.nl> Date: 21 Aug 90 09:28:19 GMT References: <1990Aug20.204546.15101@anduin.cs.liverpool.ac.uk> Sender: news@cs.vu.nl Lines: 10 dave8@anduin.cs.liverpool.ac.uk writes: |information regarding the advantages and drawbacks of hard versus soft |NFS mounts, in particular, on HP 9000 series machines runnning HP-UX 7.0. For filesystems mounted rw use hard mounting or you may lose files (if the connection is lost while the client is writing to the server). Consider soft mounting for filesystems mounted ro. -- Ronald van der Pol