Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:16:49 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Caching files in nfsd was Re: [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink |
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> The only issue that I can see (except for simple coding) is that as > NFS cannot be precise about closing at the *right* time we would be > changing from closing too early (and so re-opening) to closing too > late. > Would this be an issue for any filesystem? My feeling is not, but I'm > open to opinions....
The only potential issue I see is that forcing a flush when the file system fills up may be a good idea to drop preallocations (but then one would hope that a fs with preallocation does this already automatically, so it hopefully won't be needed in nfsd)
-Andi
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