RFS vs. NFS

[karish]

In article <7544 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <4112 at vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> barnett at steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>
>Typically an attempt to access a file on a down link causes the process
>to BLOCK at UNINTERRUPTIBLE priority!  I have been quite pissed off at
>this, on more than one occasion.  It's great fun to type "df" and then
>find that you're never going to get any farther...

When I've tried this, the attempt to read from an inaccessible NFS
partition has timed out after two minutes (on a VAX running SULTRIX).

Chuck