Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
[...] > Please clearly differentiate between sync/async mount and sync/async NFS > export options, thats really a very big difference. > E.g. a sync mount won't help you on a server failure, if you export async, > it will just slightly slow down the network due to those many NFS commits, > but is not the slighlest way more secure. > > There's currently an interesting thread on the nfs mailing list about > async/sync exports, I just cite Trond Myklebust (the linux NFS client > maintainer) here: > > "The problem is the server side "async" option which basically causes > knfsd to ignore COMMIT requests, as well as causing it to fail to > fsync() the directory after file CREATE/LINK/UNLINK/RENAME/... > i.e. it turns of all consistency guarantess on the server." > Interesting new insights about NFS ! -Philipp -- : Dipl-Ing Philipp Reisner Tel +43-1-8178292-50 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schönbrunnerstr 244, 1120 Vienna, Austria http://www.linbit.com :