[oclug] NIS vs. local users during outage

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 06/04/04 Robert Brockway said:

> With NFS, use soft mounting rather than hard mounting.  Sun (the people
> who invented NFS afterall) officially recommend this for Solaris.  This,
> plus the use of a timeo mount option can greatly improve the resilience of
> a client when the nfs server stops responding.  OTOH most people who use
> NFS mount their home diretories this way so losing the server normally
> means no productive work gets done anyway :)

Once your home directory is gone, it's tough to do anything, since every
command you run seems to source your .bashrc file before exec'ing the
new command. At least, this has been my experience. 

Mike

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