> > protocol. You can even reboot the NFS server in the middle of file > > operations, and there will be no problem (just a delay) on the > client. > > The same is true of a Samba server, as the clients are usually > coded to do reconnects correctly (remember they originally were > designed to work only with Windows servers :-).
If you're saying that linux cifs clients will gracefully handle server reboots (or interruptions) I believe you - I've never had any reason to do such a thing myself - But I know I've had within the last year, windows xp clients connected via cifs and linux clients connected via nfs to a server which spontaneously rebooted, and all the XP clients were disconnected (some had to reboot to restore connection, while most just needed to manually disconnect/reconnect) and the linux clients all paused for a little while and continued as if nothing happened. Maybe it wasn't nfs vs cifs which saved the day on the linux clients - maybe it was linux vs windows that made the difference. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
