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From: jpe@egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Control NFS exported filesystems
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Date: 20 Jun 91 17:42:04 GMT
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From article <91169.000329CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>, by CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU:
> By exprience, I learned that mounting NFS filesystems by the
> hard/foreground options may cause the machines hanging, while
> by the soft/backgroud options seems to work OK.

Hmm.. I usually mount hard,bg,intr and have had no problems.  In general
I use hard mounts for read-write mounts and soft mounts for read-only
mounts.  Putting the mount in the background will prevent the client from
waiting indefinitely for the mount to complete...

-John