Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> Well in that case the app should say that the data has been moved/copied
> to a buffer, rather than to the destination.
But the application has no way to know that.
> A user might think that the data transfer is complete when in reality
> it isn't, and this can potentially lead to data loss or corruption.
> Suppose I wait for the interface to tell me that the file has been
> copied, and then I immediately put my laptop to standby, and try to
> access the NFS copy of the file from another machine. Data corruption
> is guaranteed, because the laptop went into standby before the
> transfer has actually completed.
Don't use async mode if you care about these things.
Kevin Kofler
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