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color=#0000ff> > </FONT></SPAN><STRONG>From:</STRONG> Henry
Burroughs<BR></FONT></FONT><BR><SPAN class=907311918-02122004><FONT face=Arial
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</FONT> </FONT></SPAN>Basically, you should have (anyone disagree w/ sync?)
in /etc/exports (unless, you aren't mounting /home, but another <SPAN
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size=2> </FONT></SPAN>directory).<SPAN class=907311918-02122004><FONT
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=907311918-02122004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Sync will slow writes down a lot. It gives you more
protection than the local file system in terms of having data committed to disk
when the application says it is done writing, but how often do you expect the
NFS server to crash?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=907311918-02122004> </SPAN>run "service
nfs reload"... if it gives you failed, you aren't running the NFS server.
To quickly turn in on, run "service nfs start".<BR><SPAN
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=907311918-02122004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>The command 'exportfs -a' will make the server re-read
the exports files without a restart if NFS is already
running.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=907311918-02122004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2> Les Mikesell</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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