Re: [uml-devel] uml-patch-2.4.24-3

[Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>]

gmarzot@nortelnetworks.com said:
> I wonder based on what you say here if two UMLs that hostfs mount the
> same directory and access the same file...one for reading, and the
> other  for writing, if the first will see the updates written by the
> second....or maybe I am misinterpretting.

You are correct, the writer will cache the new data, and the reader won't see
it until it's flushed out somehow.  If you can arrange to have the writer sync 
the filesystem before the reader reads the files, then it will get up-to-date 
information.

Otherwise, if this is a problem, we need to make hostfs optionally synchronous.

				Jeff



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