[olug] Network drives on a laptop?

[Christopher Cashell]

On Jan 7, 2008 8:54 PM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> Why would there be data loss in the above situation? Tail is read-only would
> only have a problem with this situation if the logfile were truncated or
> modified in a non-appending way during the downtime.

The reference to data loss was not regarding tail, but the general
incidence of having open files on a network share that you lose
connectivity to, especially if you were to setup something to forcibly
unmount a share upon entering sleep mode (which would likely require
killing processes that have any open files).  While tail is obviously
a read-only operation, if you had a file open for editing or
modification, there would be a very real risk of data loss.

-- 
Christopher