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From: pwolfe@kailand.kai.com (Patrick Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Windows
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Date: 18 May 89 13:41:53 GMT
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> /* Written by timelord@eos.arc.nasa.gov */
> At any rate,
> don't forget to dismount shared directories/filesystems from the client
> BEFORE you bring the server down for backups.  Otherwise, your server
> will happily run backups while the client twiddles its thumbs for the
> next half hour while it tries to figure out what's going on.  At the first
> mention of a shared filesystem, it goes off into neverneverland, and the
> old "ctrl backslash" trick doesn't seem to work on the GTX.

This is because you "hard mount" your NFS filesystems.  We "soft mount" all
of our filesystems, which has the effect of timing out instead of hanging
when you mention a shared filesystem.  Of course, it's still preferable to
dismount filesystems when you *know* they are going to be unavailable.