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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:25:43 +1000 (EST)
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@aconex.com>
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Subject: Re: O_SYNC behavior?
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----- "Ray Van Dolson" <rvandolson@esri.com> wrote:

> End-user question:
> 
> NFS client accessing an NFS export on an XFS based filesystem via
> "sync" (O_SYNC) mode.
> 
> Will write confirmation be sent back from the NFS server when the
> data is written to the xfs journal,

Data is never written to the journal.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

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