Re: swapping via nfs...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 5 Jan 2000 01:21:03 +0000 (GMT)

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> > In theory (because NFS is a stateless service) clients will just wait,
> > and when the server comes back online, they just continue.
>
> Yes, I would hope that any kind of swapping over NFS would use
> hard rather than soft mounts.

For reference. SunOS 4 hard mounts wait, soft ones are killed with a bus error

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