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From: tandem!ernest@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ernest Hua)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Why can I write to a READ-ONLY NFS file system?
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 2 Nov 90 00:20:00 GMT
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I can do the following:

% cd /my/favorite/read/only/nfs/file/system
% cat some.file >> another.file
% vi another.file

And ... guess what?  No errors from "cat", and "vi" tells me that I
successfully did it.  Just to verify it, I went to the NFS server and
reverified that the append worked.

Why is this possible?  Please respond by E-MAIL only.

Ernest Hua
Tandem Computers
408-285-5580
ernest@tandem.com