Another reason I hate NFS: Silent data loss!

[der Mouse]

In article <4339.Jun1501.31.5191 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

> I just ran about twenty processes simultaneously, each feeding into
> its own output file in the same NFS-mounted directory.  About half
> the data was lost: truncated files, blocks full of zeros, etc.

Was it a hard mount?  Then report a bug to your vendor.  Otherwise, you
asked for it, you got it.

					der Mouse

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