On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:51 AM, simo <idra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 11:16 -0500, Steve French wrote: > > Access is usually checked on open right ... so once a file is open > > even if the file becomes read-only, the writes, even cached writes > > continue. > > Is this true even in the case you loose the connection with the server > and need to re-establish it ? > > Simo Sorce > Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo@xxxxxxxxx> > Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. <ssorce@xxxxxxxxxx> If you lose the connection with the server, the eventual reconnection could fail (changed password, deleted user) or reopen could fail (ACL on the file changed) but there isn't much we can do about that except aggressively flush write data (for write behind data) and do whole file caching on the client (for read ahead data) which hurt performance even worse - but cifs does have a mount option to write through (forcedirectio) rather than cache writes if desired. -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
