On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:07:43PM -0800, Brian de Alwis wrote:
> 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?

so - what will the program do on a write error? Give up in horror, in most
cases, and the data are still lost.

Regards,
	-is