Re: NFS Reliability compared to FreeBSD?

["Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>]

In message <Pine.BSO.4.10.10003241232320.6660-100000@damian.core.com>
	so spake Damian (damian):

> I've been having problems with NFS not returning "stale NFS handles" when
> trying to access mounted drives that have dropped off of the network.
> I know IRIX and NeXTSTEP returned this error.  Symptoms include such
> things as mount/umount hanging as well as df.

I think you are confused.  A "stale NFS filehandle" error occurs
when the remote filesystem has been replaced and the filehandles
no longer match.  NFS is basically stateless so if a server goes
away it patiently waits for it to come back.  This does mean that
I/O operations trying to access the remote server will hang until
it comes back...

 - todd