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A network filesystem is still expected to respond to reads and writes in a short finite time, assuming the network isn't broken. For an arbitrary network proto
by kentonv 4y ago
A network filesystem is still expected to respond to reads and writes in a short finite time, assuming the network isn't broken.
For an arbitrary network protocol, the amount of time you wait for an event is arbitrary and application-dependent. Even if everything is working exactly as intended, you could be waiting indefinitely for an event.
- skissane 4y agoThe network could be completely fine but the NFS server could have crashed (and maybe the backups were faulty so it is never coming back). That’s absolutely no different than if the same thing happened to an SSH server or a HTTP server or any other network service. The assumption is no more valid for NFS than it is for an arbitrary protocol.