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Subject: Re: NFS, Paging & Installing [was: Re: Swap]
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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Date: 21 Nov 2001 11:55:07 +0100
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>>>>> " " == Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> writes:

     > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:22:58PM -0300, Horst von Brand
     > wrote:
    >> 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.

     > Yep, but there are currently protocols (SMB) that do that, but
     > not necessarily in a unix way.

<Cough, choke>

  Exactly how, pray tell, does SMB cope with recovering the full state
info after client/server crashes?

Cheers,
   Trond
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