From: Dan Stromberg <strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu>
Subject: RE: async vs. sync
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:33:03 -0800
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On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 19:53, Lever, Charles wrote:
> > > not to mention "soft" mounts are also truly the spawn of satan.
> >=20
> > Unless your filesystem is also readonly...
>=20
> unfortunately that is a myth.  even a readonly file system can fall
> victim to the evils of soft mounts, i'm told.

Ummmm...  How?

About all that can happen, is you lose the mount.  You pretty much
-can't- toast any data.

> 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.

In which case it wasn't truly read only....


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