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Will a brief network outage result in adverse impacts to NFS clients?

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • NFS

Answer

  • The NFS protocol is generally resilient to brief outages for 30 seconds or less without any complications
  • Ultimately, the client OS, mount options, and application workload should all be investigated to determine if a brief disruption may have larger consequences

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