On 5 March 2014 13:21, lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:34 AM, lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> As to NFS, I have had bad experiences with it, like network cards >>> freezing up and computers being halted because NFS failed for unknown >>> reasons. I never got it to work reliably and would not recommend using >>> NFS for anything. >> >> I've used NFS reliably for over 20 years. I don't claim it's the best >> solution for every scenario, but I don't see how the use of a >> high-level protocol running on top of UDP or IP can freeze a network >> card. A bad driver or a hardware fault might, but that has nothing to >> do with NFS. > > Yes, it was a cheap crappy network card with a realtek chip at first, > and changing it for a much better 3Com card didn´t solve the problem. > Freezes would occur when files were transferred with NFS and otherwise > not, and not only the network card was frozen. You had to press the > reset button. That was almost 20 years ago. > > Some ppl say that NFS stands for "network failure system". Since I have > experienced this 'feature' of NFS, I simply don´t recommend NFS, and I > don´t use it when it can be avoided. > > It may still be the best solution for the OP or not. > If mounted with the 'hard' option NFS can do that, because a process is waiting to close a file. It shouldn't freeze the whole system unless part of the system itself is actually on NFS (home directories is a common one). But this can be an intentional trade-off, where you want to make sure the data has actually been written. If you're hosting data over a network then it is going to be subject to problems with the network so you need to make a decision as to the behaviour you'd prefer when that happens, in some cases stop and don't do anything else is better than carry on regardless. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
