[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft.com> wrote:

(snip)
> I have a lot of Linux NFS servers and a lot of NFS clients, mostly Linux 
> and some OSX, and over several years I have never seen a server reboot 
> cause any problems for a client, not that a server reboot happens often.

It is only supposed to fail (stale file handle) if, for example,
you replace the disk drive with a completely different one.
You wouldn't want data from a file open on the previous disk to
be written to the new one.  

-- glen