[PLUG] IMAP for home use?

[Russ Johnson]

At 11:20 PM 3/9/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>I guess you've had better luck with nfs than me.  My experience is that if 
>a client disconnects ungracefully (dead laptop batt), the server becomes 
>unresponsive.

I can't say that I've had that problem, and I'm serving nfs to 150 *nix 
machines. However, I'm doing so via autofs, not static mounts. autofs 
allows the system to mount the directory when needed, and then it 
automatically unmounts if it's not used for a period of time.

There IS one problem with nfs in linux as opposed to other Unixes, that I'm 
aware of. And it does involve ungraceful umounting. However, it's when the 
server goes away while the client is connected. The client maintains the 
mount information, and when the server comes back, it doesn't know about 
it. The client will then report a "Stale mount", and the server ignores 
requests for that export, from that client. I know Solaris handles this 
gracefully, and will allow the client to reconnect. Forcing a umount on the 
client of the affected mount will usually resolve this issue.


Russ Johnson
Dimension 7/Stargate Online
http://www.dimstar.net

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