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SubjectRe: Caching files in nfsd was Re: [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink
> 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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