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From: karish@denali.UUCP (karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch
Subject: Re: RFS vs. NFS
Message-ID: <25@denali.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 17:53:36 GMT
References: <326@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <7765@apple.Apple.Com> <7533@brl-smoke.ARPA> <4112@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> <7544@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: karish@denali.UUCP (Chuck Karish)
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
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In article <7544@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <4112@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> barnett@steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>
>Typically an attempt to access a file on a down link causes the process
>to BLOCK at UNINTERRUPTIBLE priority!  I have been quite pissed off at
>this, on more than one occasion.  It's great fun to type "df" and then
>find that you're never going to get any farther...

When I've tried this, the attempt to read from an inaccessible NFS
partition has timed out after two minutes (on a VAX running SULTRIX).

Chuck