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From: ir@cel.co.uk (ian reid)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Files hidden by NFS mounts
Keywords: NFS files
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Date: 6 Dec 90 14:26:44 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Ltd., Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.
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Suppose you have a local directory on local machine /usr/me, and that this
directory has files in it.  Now what happens to these files if /usr/me
is used as a mount point for a remote file system.

That is if you unmount the remote file system are the files that were in the 
local directory /usr/me guaranteed to be as they were before.

I am primarily interested in this for ISC 2.2 on a 386 box, when using NFS,
but any discussion for other flavours would be welcome.  RTFM's accepted.
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