Ian Malone <ibmal...@gmail.com> writes: > On 5 March 2014 13:21, lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: >> "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallag...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:34 AM, lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> 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
> [...] > 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 Yes, and IIRC, I tried the option which was supposed not to let things freeze, with no better results. BTW, is there something that handles files transfers securely in a simple way, like rsync or scp, with the ability to mount the remote file systems like with NFS or samba? -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
