Subject: Re: Unmounting disappeared NFS mounts
To: None <rmk@rmkhome.com>
From: Brian de Alwis <bsd@cs.ubc.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/16/2002 23:07:43
On 2002.03.16 20:04:23 -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:
> With soft mounts there is no guarantee on the integrity of the data
> that you write to the NFS mounted partition.

Does that mean that a write operation can fail, but seem to
succeed (no failure error-code for the write(2))?  Or is because
many programs ignore the write(2) return-results?

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