On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 05:50:49PM -0800, Rick Macklem wrote: > > > Well, it does support O_RDWR|O_APPEND, just not with O_DIRECT? > > > > > > Btw, I think an APPEND operation in NFS would be a very good idea, and > > > I'd love to work with interested parties in the IETF on it. > It is not easy to deal with w.r.t. RPC retries. Indeed. > I suppose a NFSv4.2 extension that either requires (or strongly > recommends) persistent sessions might work? > (Persistent sessions should pretty well guarantee an RPC is not > redone on the server.) I guess so. That of course actually means we rely on a viable implementation of persistent sessions. The Linux server doesn't support them, and I'm not sure which servers actually do.
