Re: FLushing cached writes in nfs_getattr() and stat() delay

[Alex Sidorenko <alexandre.sidorenko@hp.com>]

On November 6, 2008 02:45:34 pm Chuck Lever wrote:
> There's a difference between an asynchronous RPC request, and an
> asynchronous write request.
>
> An async RPC means the process doesn't wait for the request to finish=
,
> it can perform other housekeeping.
>
> An async write means that the client delays sending NFS writes,
> maintaining the dirty data in its memory. =A0It can send the NFS writ=
e
> requests by means of an async RPC if it wishes. =A0A synchronous writ=
e
> means that the client will block the application until the server has
> replied that the dirty data is on the server's disk.

Thank you for clarification. I knew what RPC-async means but for some r=
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forgot what SYNC-write means, sorry for confusion. And yes, I should ha=
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looked at /proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab

Regards,
Alex

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Global Solutions Engineering:   Unix Networking
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