From: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>
Subject: RE: async vs. sync
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:53:17 -0800
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To: "Dan Stromberg" <strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu>
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> > not to mention "soft" mounts are also truly the spawn of satan.
>=20
> Unless your filesystem is also readonly...

unfortunately that is a myth.  even a readonly file system can fall
victim to the evils of soft mounts, i'm told.

the cached version of the file on the client can become corrupted if the
file is changing remotely and one or more cache-refresh reads times out.


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