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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Files hidden by NFS mounts
Keywords: NFS files
Message-ID: <14687@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 7 Dec 90 20:14:02 GMT
References: <7453@suns302.cel.co.uk>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <7453@suns302.cel.co.uk> ir@cel.co.uk (ian reid) writes:
>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.

Well, that's SUPPOSED to be the standard UNIX semantics for "mount"ing.
Who knows what problems you might encounter in reality.  We uncover
NFS deficiencies almost daily.