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From: John Hughes <john@calvaedi.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: John Hughes <john@calva.com>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "-e" option to rpc.gssd to allow error on ticket expiry. Try 2 with added man pages.
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:57:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC6E2DE.6050700@calvaedi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321655886.10541.24.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>

On 11/18/2011 11:38 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> The fact of the matter is that most application writers remain blithely
> oblivious of the need to fsync() as the ext4 people know all to well:
> see the attempts to impose the fully posix-compatible 'data=writeback'
> mode as the default and the catastrophe that occurred when
> 'data=ordered' semantics changed for the rename() syscall. Adding new
> failure modes needs to be done with care, or GNOME will crash and/or
> your word processor _will_ lose your last hour or so of work.
>    
1. It's not a new failure mode.  it's how things worked before 2.6.34
2. My ticket usualy expires in the middle of the night.  I get back in 
the morning and have to reboot the workstation because it's hung.  
Anything left in the wordprocessor is lost.

Before this change I got back in the morning, the unlock screen popped 
up, I entered my password and got a new ticket, everyone was happy.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-18 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-18 14:34 [PATCH] Add "-e" option to rpc.gssd to allow error on ticket expiry. Try 2 with added man pages John Hughes
2011-11-18 18:35 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-18 19:19   ` John Hughes
2011-11-18 20:33     ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-18 20:47       ` Nick Bowler
2011-11-18 20:54         ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-18 20:57       ` Jim Rees
2011-11-18 21:03         ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-18 22:33           ` John Hughes
2011-11-18 22:37             ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-18 22:46               ` John Hughes
2011-11-18 22:08       ` John Hughes
2011-11-18 22:38         ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-18 22:57           ` John Hughes [this message]

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