[nflug] NFS noac option

[Darin Perusich]

see http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_e4 for the "risks of using "soft" 
mounts" as they put it.

Justin Bennett wrote:
> Mail is delivered / served from these as well, everything would just log 
> jam behind the hard mounts, trying to shut services down on the way 
> down, and then ultimatly the NFS and NFSLOCK on services on the client 
> shutting down. I found the soft mounts allowed things to error out and 
> shutdown cleanly before the UPS died. Is there a downfall about soft 
> mounts I'm missing, other than things may error out if the NFS box is down?
> 
> Darin Perusich wrote:
>> that sounds to me like your other services where not stopped before 
>> the file systems where trying to unmount. i know that samba doesn't 
>> care about open files when you tell it to stop. it usually the same 
>> for nfsd, it doesn't care if clients have resources mount, it just 
>> stops serving the FS and the clients get stale nfs handles.
>>


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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corporation
395 Youngs Rd.
Williamsville, NY 14221
darinper at cognigencorp.com
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