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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs _______________________________________________ Please note that nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is being discontinued. Please subscribe to linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx instead. http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-nfs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html