Re: A serious NFS client bug in 1.99.14.

H.J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Sun, 09 Jun 1996 16:29:31 -0700


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> > The results I get range from corrupted files to failed commends. Is
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > there a fix for it? BTW, my NFS server is also 1.99.14 with
> > Universal NFS Server, version 2.2beta4.

> A weird data point: two people have reported Netscape can't write its
> bookmarks file, but both those people have *local* home directories,
> mounted via the automounter.

That is what I meant by "failed commends". The current
NFS client doesn't handle transient failures very well.

H.J.