Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:01:44 -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 h9EF1225032050 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:01:03 -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 h9EF0wd8013980 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:00:58 +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 1A9QfS-000446-00 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:00:58 +0200 To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS and async NFS exports References: From: Nicolas Kowalski Mail-Copies-To: never Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:00:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Nicolas Kowalski's message of "Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:58:43 +0200") 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: 714 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: 425 Lines: 17 Nicolas Kowalski writes: [...] > If I use sync exports, does this mean that XFS will effectively > write on disk all pending data ? I did some tests on a workstation, with sync exports, and yes, it works ; it is slow, but it works. If I unplug the power during an NFS-client write to this workstation, the files just written before the power outage are fine. Sorry for the noise. -- Nicolas