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Originally Posted by vaibhav.kanchan
Please exaplain the term file locking in case of NFS.  Which mount is useful in case of NFS? Hard mount or soft mount? |
Soft option allows the kernel to time out if the nfs server is not responding for some time. The time can be specified with timeo=time. This option might be useful if your nfs server sometimes doesn’t respond or will be rebooted while some process tries to get a file from the server.
Locking means shared file can be saved by one user at a time.
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Linux NFS Export / share directory to other UNIX / Linux computer
Mount NFS file system over a slow and busy network