On 12/12/2012 05:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Tuesday 11 Dec 2012 12:08:46 you wrote: >> After more poking-about: filp_close() in the VFS calls nfs_file_flush(), >> which writes the file back to the server. The struct file we're given is >> freed up shortly after calling flush, so this looks like the last chance we >> get to write changes (and I don't think we should change that). > Hmm, so is this maybe an implementation limitation? I would expect "nocto" to > prevent that flushing, since that seems to be the main purpose of "nocto". > But maybe it would have been too much work to buffer the flushes, and so every > file gets flushed on close anyway? > > Paul Something like that, yeah. "nocto" just applies to the attribute cache, and does not change the flushing behavior. - Bryan
