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Please exaplain the term file locking in case of NFS. Which mount is useful in case of NFS? Hard mount or soft mount?

I am not able to use linux in init 5 mode. I have recently upgraded the linux os from RHEL 4 ES to RHEL5 ES. I was able to get the init 5 mode in RHEL 4. Please let me know any solution in this case. waiting for your reply.

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.

See Linux NFS Export / share directory to other UNIX / Linux computer

Mount NFS file system over a slow and busy network

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HI,

What is the meaning of softmounting and hard mounting in NFS? and how to configure the same ?

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sree