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From: Aaron Straus <aaron@merfinllc.com>
To: chucklever@gmail.com
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
	Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [NFS] blocks of zeros (NULLs) in NFS files in kernels >= 2.6.20
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:37:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080922173715.GE12483@merfinllc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76bd70e30809221026g7bde774pbffa35881682ea4b@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sep 22 01:26 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Why can't you use O_SYNC | O_APPEND ?

In our case, some of the writers are not in our control.  Another case
we see the issue is you spawn a job:

   job 1> out 2> err &
   tail -f out err

--

Also, we actually do like caching the writes (b/c log files do not need
to be checked immediately after being written).   We just wish the cache
could be written out in-order.

If there's no way to make that happen... we can reorganize our
file-system, exports, mounts, etc so that the log file directory is
mounted with the sync option.   

However, the problem *might* be annoying and wide-spread enough to
warrant a change.

Anyway, thanks!

				Regards,
				=a=





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Aaron Straus
aaron@merfinllc.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-22 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-05 19:19 blocks of zeros (NULLs) in NFS files in kernels >= 2.6.20 Aaron Straus
2008-09-05 19:56 ` [NFS] " Chuck Lever
2008-09-05 20:04   ` Aaron Straus
2008-09-05 20:36     ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-09-05 20:36     ` Chuck Lever
2008-09-05 22:14       ` Aaron Straus
2008-09-06  0:03   ` Aaron Straus
2008-09-08 19:02   ` Aaron Straus
2008-09-08 21:15     ` Chuck Lever
2008-09-08 22:02       ` Aaron Straus
2008-09-09 19:46       ` Aaron Straus
2008-09-11 16:55         ` Chuck Lever
2008-09-11 17:19           ` Aaron Straus
2008-09-11 17:48             ` Chuck Lever
2008-09-11 18:49               ` Aaron Straus
2008-09-22 16:05                 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2008-09-22 16:35                   ` Trond Myklebust
2008-09-22 17:04                     ` Aaron Straus
2008-09-22 17:26                       ` Chuck Lever
2008-09-22 17:37                         ` Aaron Straus [this message]
2008-09-22 17:29                       ` Trond Myklebust
2008-09-22 17:45                         ` Aaron Straus
2008-09-22 18:43                           ` Aaron Straus
2008-09-22 18:45                           ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2008-09-22 18:45                     ` Hans-Peter Jansen

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