From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested.
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:55:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070821165544.GA27995@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18123.5699.405125.137517@stoffel.org>
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 I think the man pages are out of date, or ignoring reality.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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-21 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-20 22:54 NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested Robin Lee Powell
2007-08-20 23:27 ` Neil Brown
2007-08-20 23:34 ` Robin Lee Powell
2007-08-21 1:51 ` Salah Coronya
2007-08-21 16:43 ` John Stoffel
2007-08-21 16:55 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-08-21 17:01 ` Peter Staubach
2007-08-21 17:14 ` Chakri n
2007-08-21 17:14 ` Robin Lee Powell
2007-08-21 17:18 ` Peter Staubach
2007-08-21 18:50 ` John Stoffel
2007-08-21 19:04 ` Peter Staubach
2007-08-21 19:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-24 15:09 ` Ric Wheeler
2007-08-24 15:37 ` Peter Staubach
2007-08-24 15:53 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-21 23:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-22 10:03 ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-22 15:26 ` John Stoffel
2007-08-31 8:06 ` Ian Kent
2007-08-31 15:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-31 15:30 ` Ian Kent
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