[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 13 May 2011 01:21:48 +0000, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

> 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.

Even then, if the inode numbers are preserved, it shpuld be OK.

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