Subject: Re: FFS reliability problems
To: <>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/08/2002 20:09:30
> 
> Well, yes.  NFS is supposed to be stateless; you are supposed to design
> your file handles in such a way that their validity survives anything
> that commonly happens to your server - or at least, anything that
> commonly happens to your server that you don't want clients to have to
> remount the filesystem because of.  Reboots are probably the commonest
> example.

True - now sort out how to export:
- FAT filesystems
- overlay mounts

Obviously you can store the extra info you need inside a file
within the filesystems, but that does get tricky esp. if the
fs are readonly.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk