[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> when the remote fs goes down for more than a few seconds... you're dead
> anyway... dont matter ...
> - you will lose the edits you did not save ...
>
Baloney.
Basically, the difference between "hard" and "soft" is:
* "hard" -- "I need this filesystem"
-> If this filesystem becomes unavailable you will hang until it is
available again, but when it comes back you will not have lost data,
unless something really weird happened on the server side, *or* your own
system lost power or was otherwise rebooted.
* "soft" -- "I don't really need this"
-> If this filesystem becomes unavailable you will lose any unsaved data
in fairly short order, but your own system will continue to function.
-hpa
