Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:31:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imag.imag.fr (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id h9EFUX25003790 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:30:34 -0700 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (pave.imag.fr [129.88.43.12]) by imag.imag.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9EFUSd8023973 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:30:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from astazou.imag.fr ([129.88.43.102] helo=astazou.imag.fr.imag.fr ident=kowalski) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9R7z-0004gT-00 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:30:28 +0200 To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS and async NFS exports References: <200310141501.h9EF1Nco078807@fsgi158.americas.sgi.com> From: Nicolas Kowalski Mail-Copies-To: never Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:30:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200310141501.h9EF1Nco078807@fsgi158.americas.sgi.com> (Tad Dolphay's message of "Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:01:22 -0500 (CDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-archive-position: 716 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: Nicolas.Kowalski@imag.fr Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 434 Lines: 17 Tad Dolphay writes: > If sync exports are used on the NFS server and hard mounts are used on > the NFS client, I doubt there will be any loss of data when a server crashes. Thanks for your reply. This is the way I reconfigured my file server and its clients. I also modified my samba configuration to include the "strict sync" option. All is running fine, despite a higher load average. Best regards. -- Nicolas