On Wednesday 08 October 2008 19:32, Eric Dumazet wrote: > A far more interesting problem is the "tail -f logfile" problem that raised > recently in lkml, when file is NFS mounted, where reader can get nul > bytes... (Subject : blocks of zeros (NULLs) in NFS files in kernels >= > 2.6.20 ) Not so interesting outside NFS, AFAIKS? It's just a matter of what semantics NFS chooses to implement... I guess stronger semantics will tend to be more costly, all else being equal, probably the reason why they do it that way. That behaviour does seem a bit surprising, though. -- 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
