From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: question on the inner workings of NFS soft mount Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:39:01 -0400 Message-ID: <1185489541.6585.267.camel@localhost> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net To: Wim Colgate Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IEBzA-0006jq-1A for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:39:08 -0700 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.10.15] ident=[U2FsdGVkX1/vk0dLdfH5zhN2YJ2B0MsTTnDmT5Y6Y1M=]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1IEBz9-0005Kj-WE for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:39:10 -0700 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." 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