Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [NFS] New version of Linux NFSv3 client is out... | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | 25 Jan 2000 10:16:25 +0100 |
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>>>>> " " == David S Miller <davem@redhat.com> writes:
> From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Date: 25 > Jan 2000 09:55:55 +0100
> Please note that the knfsd server has consistently violated > this part of the NFSv2 protocol: knfsd acknowledges a write > statement from the client without ensuring that data has > been flushed to disk, thus the client is not guaranteed that > anything it has written will survive a server failure.
> Come again? I see a nfsd_sync and a write_inode_now there in > the knfsd write paths.
nfsd_sync is only called if the write gathering code is enabled (which is never the case at the moment).
You have to explicitly set the 'sync' option in /etc/exports in order for the write_inode_now() stuff to be called.
Hence, the default behaviour is to violate the NFSv2 protocol.
Cheers, Trond
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