>> I was under the impression that vnconfigging an nfs-mounted file >> continues to not work to today -- [...] > It _used_ to work - in recent years I did a recovery of a linux lvm > backup by nfs mounting the storage that had the file created by > dd'ing the linux disk, doing a vnconfig and then a lvm change to get > at the linux file systems.
Oh, it worked for me too - for a while. It didn't wedge until, I suspect, the system came under memory pressure. If I'd written an amount that's small compared to available RAM before flushing and unmounting, I very well might not have noticed any problem at all. Also, your use case was read-mostly, sounds like. Mine was not. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B