NFS help

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, inode0 wrote:

> On 8/27/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> > OK, Now I understand what you were saying and yes I can do that
> > but - as I said before this is more of a learning exercise and I
> > was just wondering how it would be done using full DHCP assigned
> > IP addresses
>
> Rick can come save me perhaps here ... Rick? You out there? :)
>
> NFS in my limited experience doesn't fill me with confidence about its
> robustness. I really don't think I'd want to see what happens when 40
> machines have mounts on my NFS server and my server reboots
> spontaneously and gets a new IP. What happens to all those existing
> mounts? I'm skeptical about NFS handling this gracefully, but perhaps
> someone with more experience and knowledge could fill us in on the
> consequences.
>
> John
>
I'll join that request - from what I've read it's not really
graceful and in my reading I get conflicting suggestions - it
would be nice if each article indicated which version of Linux
they were talking about....

Brad