Another reason I hate NFS: Silent data loss!

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <1991Jun18.064615.21165 at thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> mouse at thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
> 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.

Uh, nothing in the NFS documentation says ``soft mounts are buggy, do
not use them.'' Hard mounts and soft mounts show similar failures.

---Dan