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I guess these are used as a soft mount, considering that if you terminate the application or it crashes a hard mount would just hang indefinitely. That's probably fine for a read-only snapshot, most problems with soft mounts are around writes.



I wouldn't recommend "hard" mounts to anyone.


Well you trade system lockups with sometimes getting IO errors under load, which one is better ... shrug




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