From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: simo Subject: Re: Re: set last write time = fsync ? Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:51:59 -0400 Message-ID: <1205592719.9351.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <524f69650803122054t7b0f8285kd564271f8340378e@mail.gmail.com> <20080313071046.1a9350a9@tleilax.poochiereds.net> <524f69650803131932w91fa962i261a4c72a99db9d8@mail.gmail.com> <20080314064017.6aa3e471@tleilax.poochiereds.net> <524f69650803140916w1dde16a9ja9dc4e052edd77e5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel , linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, Jeff Layton , Guenter Kukkukk To: Steve French Return-path: In-Reply-To: <524f69650803140916w1dde16a9ja9dc4e052edd77e5@mail.gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-cifs-client-bounces+glfc-linux-cifs-client=gmane.org@lists.samba.org Errors-To: linux-cifs-client-bounces+glfc-linux-cifs-client=gmane.org@lists.samba.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 11:16 -0500, Steve French wrote: > I don't worry about flushing atime (anyone crazy enough to do that > would pay a huge performance penalty). > Access is usually checked on open right ... so once a file is open > even if the file becomes read-only, the writes, even cached writes > continue. Is this true even in the case you loose the connection with the server and need to re-establish it ? Simo. -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc.