Another reason I hate NFS: Silent data loss!
der Mouse
mouse at thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
Tue Jun 18 16:46:15 AEST 1991
In article <4339.Jun1501.31.5191 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> I just ran about twenty processes simultaneously, each feeding into
> its own output file in the same NFS-mounted directory. About half
> the data was lost: truncated files, blocks full of zeros, etc.
Was it a hard mount? Then report a bug to your vendor. Otherwise, you
asked for it, you got it.
der Mouse
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