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Subject: Re: stable page writes: wait_on_page_writeback and packet signing
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:34:54 -0500
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On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 08:41:03PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> So what if the server crashes, or you get some other transient error?

I don't think the CIFS world cares.  E.g. a Samba in default
configuration never even bothers to do a fsync on the underlying server,
which to me implies data integrity is not of concern for usual CIFS
setups.