Can NFS server not responding trash vi?

[Jeff Beadles]

In article <1384 at ziggy.EDU> ssi at ziggy.EDU (Ssi) writes:
> I have a Sun 3/160 serving 5 diskless clients.
>We get a fair share of `NFS server not responding..'
>messages. Sometimes when a user writes a large file
>(250000 bytes) from `vi' the file gets trashed.
>This seems to happen when the write encounters an
>NFS error. The last time this happened there where
>several `spurious level 4 interrupt' errors on the server
>console, I don't recall seeing these on the other
>occasions.
> I'm running SunOS 3.5
>
>                      Greg Ripp ssi at ziggy.edu


Using softmounted NFS filesystems,  yes it's possible.  The mount can
timeout with a soft mount.

Using hard mounted filesystems, it shouldn't happen.  (If the 'intr'
option is set and the user hits their interupt character (usually ^C or DEL)
then all bets are off. :-)



	-Jeff
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