Re: novice question about large write requests

[Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>]

Venkatesh KS wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I am trying to understand how nfs client handles a server reboot while 
> issuing multiple
> unstable writes followed by a commit.
>
> Say a user requests a large write requests.
> nfs client breaks it into multiple 32k requests, each 32k write 
> request being unstable
> and finally a commit call before the nfs client returns back to the user.
>
> If the server reboots in between these write calls, will the nfs 
> client know abt it.
> The write before this may not have made it to disk. If the nfs client 
> doenst know
> abt it then it goes ahead with commit call and returns.

I would suggest checking out RFC1813 for information on this topic.

       ps

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