[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <iqema8$ltc$1 at dont-email.me>,
	glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> 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.

True.  And yet, people still wonder why I think Linux is pure crap.

bill

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