On November 6, 2008 02:45:34 pm Chuck Lever wrote: > There's a difference between an asynchronous RPC request, and an > asynchronous write request. > > An async RPC means the process doesn't wait for the request to finish, > it can perform other housekeeping. > > An async write means that the client delays sending NFS writes, > maintaining the dirty data in its memory. It can send the NFS write > requests by means of an async RPC if it wishes. A synchronous write > means that the client will block the application until the server has > replied that the dirty data is on the server's disk. Thank you for clarification. I knew what RPC-async means but for some reason forgot what SYNC-write means, sorry for confusion. And yes, I should have looked at /proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab Regards, Alex -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Alexandre Sidorenko email: asid@xxxxxx Global Solutions Engineering: Unix Networking Hewlett-Packard (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 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
