The examples in this guide are based on a Linux operating system and command line examples are based on the “Bash” command line interpreter. Other software packages or command line interpreters may require a different syntax or generate other outputs.
Archive storage connections that are established via a network file system (NFS) should use a hard mount, like it can be achieved, for example, with the following command:
mount -o rw,hard host.server.com/home /mymountpoint
Soft mounts can result in data corruption or loss of data because NFS drivers may cache data and if a soft mount times out, the system may not know which write operations to the NFS volumes were actually committed to disk.