[redhat-lspp] audit messages during bootup

[Linda Knippers]

> The features of a general purpose file system don't quite match the
> features we require of auditing.  For example if an NFS server is down
> do we want the auditd to just hang or have the option to skip some
> messages?  Some sites would want extreme actions (such as halting the
> machine) if the server has a temporary failure, but probably most sites
> (IE non-government and non-military) would want the ability to drop some
> messages.

In general, one wouldn't use a single NFS server.  There are a variety
of HA NFS server/cluster products on the market for commercial Unix
variants, some of which are pretty darn good.  I personally like
TruCluster on Tru64. :-)

-- ljk