Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Aug 1999 16:47:06 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: 2.3 SMP overlapping writes and NFS |
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Trond Myklebust wrote: > As long as we violate the synchronicity assumption strict adherence to > the rule of atomicity of writes becomes a largely academic issue.
They're different things.
Regardless of committing to stable storage, write atomicity can be used for database synchronisation between clients. Of course any sensible client would synchronise on a single byte... I don't know if any real applications depend on atomic writes.
> For NFSv3, things are of course different, since there the NFS_COMMIT > instruction exists in order to trigger the flushing to disk.
And atomicity isn't specified for NFSv3 either.
-- Jamie
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