From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon,  2 Dec 1996 13:03:57 +0000
From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: none
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>>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?