Re: PROBLEM: knfsd misses occasional writes

Sverker Wiberg
2002-05-16T16:48:54Z

Neil Brown wrote:
>
> On Thursday May 16, Sverker.Wiberg@uab.ericsson.se wrote:

[on soft mount timeouts]
> > But shouldn't those timeouts become errors over at the clients?
>
> Yes... but "write" won't see an error. Only 'fsync' or maybe 'close',
> and many applications ignore errors from these operations.

How come? Isn't the client side innately synchronous (as RPC clients in
general)?
Or is this one of thost thing that are now done differently?

/Sverker