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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
Cc: Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@esri.com>,
	Nathan Scott <nathans@aconex.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: O_SYNC behavior?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:12:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100427141205.GA557@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100427093250.GA15182@citd.de>

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:32:50AM +0200, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> I don't think that answers the intented question.
> 
> I guess the correct answer is:
> It depends on the server-side configuration.
> An "async" export gets the "done"-answer immediatly.
> An "sync" export (only when also mounted "sync" AFAIU) waits at least 
> until the write command is send down the stack, maybe even until the 
> data actually hit the platters or silicon in the SSD-case.
> 
> man 5 exports:
> - snip -
> sync:	Reply to requests only after the changes have been committed to stable storage
> - snip -
> 
> But i guess the performance will be horrible when both side are "sync".

The client side (that is mount-side) sync means implying O_SYNC for all
I/O - no need for that.  And sync exports are the default for every sane
server.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-27 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-26 22:56 O_SYNC behavior? Ray Van Dolson
2010-04-26 23:25 ` Nathan Scott
2010-04-27  9:32   ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2010-04-27 14:12     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-04-27 15:35       ` Ray Van Dolson

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