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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:55:44 -0400 From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org> To: John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org> Cc: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@...italkingdom.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested. On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:43:47PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > Robin> I've read every man page I could find, and the only nfs option > Robin> that semes even vaguely helpful is "soft", but everything that > Robin> mentions "soft" also says to never use it. > > I think the man pages are out of date, or ignoring reality. No. The price of using "soft" is the chance of data corruption, since an application may for example be left thinking that a write has succeeded when it hasn't. See http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_e4 --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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