From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:48:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:48:53 -0400 Received: from penguin-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se ([193.180.251.47]:36065 "EHLO penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:48:52 -0400 Message-ID: <3CE3E2EF.DAEB126@uab.ericsson.se> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 18:48:47 +0200 From: Sverker Wiberg X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Brown CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: PROBLEM: knfsd misses occasional writes In-Reply-To: <3CE250A5.47F71DF@uab.ericsson.se> <15586.20989.992591.474108@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> <3CE38E9D.986ACF7F@uab.ericsson.se> <15587.39544.81694.975593@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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