What is the difference between soft mount and hard mount in aix?
Scenario:
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After reboot, the target server is trying to mount the nfs filesystem as part of boot process, in the
same time the source server went to offline or some one reboot the source
server, in this case what will happen.
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if the filesystem mounted to the target server as soft mount, then it will contact the source
server and tring to mount the filesystem, if it does not get the source server
within a while, then it will stop to contact the source server and make the target server to come online without mounting the filesystem.
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If the filesystem mounted to the target server as hard mount, then it will wait until the source
server to come online to mount the filesystem as per the above scenario, so in this case the target
server can not up until the source server is accessible.
Simply we can explain like below.
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A soft mount will
return an error if the source server goes offline.
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A hard mount will
wait until the server comes back online, and then begin to transferring /copying
again.
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It is really best
practice when you mount the filesystem as soft mount.
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