[rescue] Re: OT Linux

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mcguire at neurotica.com writes:

>  NFS defaults to UDP, and most NFS implementations *only* do UDP.
>TCP can be better in some situations because it can take advantage of
>stuff like congestion control...but UDP NFS mounts have the advantage
>of being stateless, so you don't need to remount filesystems when the
>server reboots.

Really? I thought it was only an issue of packet level reliability.

Perhaps that's why I've never particularly grokked NFS client behaviour
during server reboots. :-)

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