On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 08:41:03PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > So what if the server crashes, or you get some other transient error? I don't think the CIFS world cares. E.g. a Samba in default configuration never even bothers to do a fsync on the underlying server, which to me implies data integrity is not of concern for usual CIFS setups. -- 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