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		hinkley 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Netwo... I heard rumors at first and later saw it once that the sparc lab at my university occasionally had to be shut down and turned on in a particular order to get the whole thing to spool back up after a server glitch. I think the problem got really nasty once you had NFS mounts from multiple places.

burnt-resistor 4 months ago [–]

sync with tcp on NFS 2 had the hang problem. async on NFS 3+ was better but could still hang if configured using sync.

NFS 4.1 introduced pNFS scalability and 4.2 has even more optimizations.

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