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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Robust Mounts
Message-ID: <1376@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Date: 11 Jan 90 20:52:48 GMT
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Reply-To: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.unix.questions deke@ee.rochester.edu writes:
< 
< In article <10284@zodiac.ADS.COM> mliverig@spark.uucp writes:
< >A few months back there was a discussion about making "nfs" networks
< >robust. It was my impression that there was a consensus that:
< >
< >1) Soft mounts of read-write file systems would increase the risk of
< >corrupting the file systems.
< 
How?

After all, whoever mounts the NFS volume is not doing any device-level stuff
(it's Network _File_, not _Volume_ System, after all ;-) ), so how could a
file system get corrupted?

If you mean that the internal structure of some files could get screwed up, on
the other hand, you're perfectly correct.

< I agree with this, and stick to it as a loose rule.  There are some occasions
< when I ignore it, after thinking it over carefully.
< 
Such as? (Inquiring minds want to know...)

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Matthias Urlichs