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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Chris Fanning <christopher.fanning@gmail.com>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [NFS] async vs. sync. corrupted fs
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 10:54:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080519145411.GC7622@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <215ff4410805160355x25b8d055x9a0a246aa5875482-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:55:59PM +0200, Chris Fanning wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Could someone help me out?
> 
> I'm exporting a whole partition to a client.
> Using (rw,no_root_squash,sync, no_subtree_check), when I shutdown the
> server _before_ the client, the filesystem on the partion becomes
> corrupted.

How do you know it becomes corrupted?

> When I user async, it doesn't happen.

"async" the client-side mount option, or "async" the server-side export
option?

> Is this normal?

No.

> The exports manpage suggests that 'sync' is the better option.

Yes.

--b.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-19 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-16 10:55 [NFS] async vs. sync. corrupted fs Chris Fanning
     [not found] ` <215ff4410805160355x25b8d055x9a0a246aa5875482-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-19 14:54   ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2008-05-20  8:00     ` Chris Fanning
     [not found]       ` <215ff4410805200100o20fb83bcm9921127efef27ef9-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-20 13:01         ` Trond Myklebust
2008-05-20 14:05           ` Marcelo Leal
     [not found]             ` <42996ba90805200705o49b4a17bn62cc9962bbcac8b2-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-20 16:27               ` Trond Myklebust
2008-05-20 18:56                 ` Marcelo Leal
     [not found]         ` <215ff4410805200100o20fb83bcm9921127efef27ef9-JsoAwUIsXouhRSP0FMvGiw@public.gmane.org m>
2008-05-20 13:36           ` Talpey, Thomas

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