Re: [NFS] async vs. sync. corrupted fs

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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:55:59PM +0200, Chris Fanning wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Could someone help me out?
> 
> I'm exporting a whole partition to a client.
> Using (rw,no_root_squash,sync, no_subtree_check), when I shutdown the
> server _before_ the client, the filesystem on the partion becomes
> corrupted.

How do you know it becomes corrupted?

> When I user async, it doesn't happen.

"async" the client-side mount option, or "async" the server-side export
option?

> Is this normal?

No.

> The exports manpage suggests that 'sync' is the better option.

Yes.

--b.

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