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Be very careful
NFS soft mounts are VERY dangerous for read/write filesystems! If you care about the data you are writing, do NOT use soft mounts. From the Linux (OS really doesn't matter) NFS HOWTO:
You'd probably be fine using it with a read/only MP3 collection or something like that, but in that case you're probably better off setting up DAV on the server and mounting the filesystem that way -- much easier access on the client, and you can realistically connect from anywhere.
Be very careful
Heh, you have just described SMB. The semantics of SMB are very similar to the semantics of NFS soft mounts. If the NT redirector sees a timeout on an SMB packet, it sends an error to the application. Some apps register an error handler and can deal with the error (I believe MS apps such as Word can absorb the error). But many can't, and they are terminated by the OS! Where as UNIX systems post a read/write error I believe (unfortunately many apps handle such errors ungracefully). SMB on OS X probably behaves like NFS soft mounts ... I haven't tested it yet though. |
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