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To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
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Subject: Re: NFS, Paging & Installing [was: Re: Swap] 
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From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
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Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> said:
> Do any newer versions of NFS fix the stateless server problem?

This is an _extremely_ hard problem: The server has to know somehow what
the client thinks the state is... and either one (or both) may have been
rebooted in between without the other one knowing.
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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile                               +56 32 672616
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