On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:24:02AM -0500, Robert Forsman wrote:
> Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ,in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> m>, wrote:
>
> > There is a mild argument for avoiding mounts in /. Long ago, I used
> > systems with fs foo on machine bar in /nfs/bar/foo. This had the
> > advantage that 'ls -l /' didn't hang the system in the case of a dead
> > server. With coda, this should be temporary and only last 30 seconds
> > or so when it goes down, so this isn't so serious.
>
> I'm sure that nobody will mind waiting 30 seconds for "pwd" to return.
'pwd' doesn't try to get the attributes of /coda, except when it is run
from within /coda and then you have the 30 second timeout anyways.
Jan
