[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:

(snip, I wrote)
>> For most, the disk has to keep running throughout.  For a diskless
>> client off an NFS server, even that isn't needed.  (Diskless NFS
>> clients survive a server reboot.)
 
> Well, if you were considering possible disk failure, how about I build
> a system with just a ramdisk?  :-)  No moving parts beyond electrons.
 
> And talk about being old. Unless they have fixed it (which I
> doubt as I never saw anyone in the linux crowd admit it was done
> wrong) Linux versions of NFS are, in some way, stateful and a reboot
> of the server requires a reboot of all the clients.  One of the
> reasons I have resisted moving anything here to Linux as we rely
> very heavily on NFS and I can't be rebooting all our clients if I
> have to take the fileserver down for any reason.

Yes, all my diskless NFS work was with Sun hosts.  I had many
survive a server reboot.  Then once we sold a server, while the
clients sat there waiting for it to come back...

Stateless (except for file lock) is supposed to be part of NFS.

-- glen