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From: forsyth@pla... forsyth@pla...
Subject: none
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:03:57 GMT

>>There remains the matter of a recovery protocol.  Plan 9 handles a
>>server crash by requiring the client to reboot [:-(]. Brazil is said to

pop3 and similar internet protocols, such as smtp, nntp, http, etc, already fail
(disconnect) when the server or network fails, so using a file service
protocol with similar properties makes no difference.

just out of interest, why is your server crashing so often?