More generally, as Manuel noted you can (and should!) make use of fsync et al for data safety. Ceph’s async operations are not any different at the application layer from how data you send to the hard drive can sit around in volatile caches until a consistency point like fsync is invoked. -Greg On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 10:02 PM Dhairya Parmar <dparmar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Charles, > > There are many scenarios where the write/close operation can fail but > generally > failures/errors are logged (normally every time) to help debug the case. > Therefore > there are no silent failures as such except you encountered a very rare > bug. > - Dhairya > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 11:38 PM Charles Hedrick <hedrick@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > I believe asynchronous operations are used for some operations in cephfs. > > That means the server acknowledges before data has been written to stable > > storage. Does that mean there are failure scenarios when a write or close > > will return an error? fail silently? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx > > > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx