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- From: jbvb@vax.ftp.com (James B. VanBokkelen)
- Subject: Re: Fast Fault Tolerant NFS Server
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- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 11:17:27
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- In article <SHEPLER.92Jul7180529@gumby.austin.ibm.com> shepler@gumby.austin.ibm.com ( Spencer Shepler ) writes:
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- So how does this system handle the case where both operating system
- decide to panic at the same time (or both system receive an NFS
- request that makes them crash). In this case wouldn't the NFS
- clients lose data that has already been ack'd as written to disk?
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- Were I trying to do this, I'd first fix all the bugs that allowed the
- machine to be crashed from the net. The NFS reference implementation's
- fragility isn't inevitable...
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