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From: "bfields@fieldses.org" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>
Cc: "bfields@redhat.com" <bfields@redhat.com>,
	"linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	"chuck.lever@oracle.com" <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] nfsd: add a new EXPORT_OP_NOWCC flag to struct export_operations
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 22:11:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201201031130.GD22446@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66f93208c6edf2dad70ee41c349c5130b30b8ed4.camel@hammerspace.com>

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 03:06:46AM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> A local filesystem might choose to set the 'non-atomic' flag without
> wanting to turn off NFSv3 WCC attributes. Yes, the latter are assumed
> to be atomic, but a number of commercial servers do abuse that
> assumption in practice.

What do you mean by abusing that assumption?

I thought that leaving off the post-op attrs was the v3 protocol's way
of saying that it couldn't give you atomic wcc information.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-01  3:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-30 21:24 [PATCH 0/6] Patches to support NFS re-exporting trondmy
2020-11-30 21:24 ` [PATCH 1/6] nfsd: add a new EXPORT_OP_NOWCC flag to struct export_operations trondmy
2020-11-30 21:24   ` [PATCH 2/6] nfsd: allow filesystems to opt out of subtree checking trondmy
2020-11-30 21:24     ` [PATCH 3/6] nfsd: close cached files prior to a REMOVE or RENAME that would replace target trondmy
2020-11-30 21:24       ` [PATCH 4/6] exportfs: Add a function to return the raw output from fh_to_dentry() trondmy
2020-11-30 21:24         ` [PATCH 5/6] nfsd: Fix up nfsd to ensure that timeout errors don't result in ESTALE trondmy
2020-11-30 21:24           ` [PATCH 6/6] nfsd: Set PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE on local filesystems only trondmy
2020-11-30 23:05           ` [PATCH 5/6] nfsd: Fix up nfsd to ensure that timeout errors don't result in ESTALE J. Bruce Fields
2020-12-01  0:39             ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-01  2:30               ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-30 22:59     ` [PATCH 2/6] nfsd: allow filesystems to opt out of subtree checking J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-30 22:58   ` [PATCH 1/6] nfsd: add a new EXPORT_OP_NOWCC flag to struct export_operations J. Bruce Fields
2020-12-01  0:33     ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-01  0:45     ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-01  2:28       ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-12-01  3:06         ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-01  3:11           ` bfields [this message]
2020-12-01  3:16             ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-01  3:23               ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-01 15:19                 ` bfields
2020-12-01 15:50                   ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-01 15:06               ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-12-01 19:46     ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-30 23:11   ` Chuck Lever
2020-12-01  0:49     ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-01  0:14   ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-30 21:40 ` [PATCH 0/6] Patches to support NFS re-exporting Chuck Lever
2020-11-30 21:51   ` Trond Myklebust

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