Files hidden by NFS mounts

[Jeff Wandling]

ir at cel.co.uk (ian reid) writes:


>Suppose you have a local directory on local machine /usr/me, and that this
>directory has files in it.  Now what happens to these files if /usr/me
>is used as a mount point for a remote file system.

>That is if you unmount the remote file system are the files that were in the 
>local directory /usr/me guaranteed to be as they were before.

>I am primarily interested in this for ISC 2.2 on a 386 box, when using NFS,
>but any discussion for other flavours would be welcome.  RTFM's accepted.
>-- 

On the RS-6000 model 520 we had, it worked the way you described. Files
that were in directory /usr/me remained there. This is something I'd
expect on other machines. Again, any comment?
 
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jeff wandling | western washington university | inet: jeff at arthur.cs.wwu.edu
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