On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 10:45 -0700, Kums wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx > > wrote: > > If so, then that would be > > a much stronger guarantee than POSIX and local disk give you, and it > > will seriously impact I/O performance (whether you use NFS, local disk > > or whatever). > > > > Yes, I understand. Iam just throwing out a suggestion to see if "-o sync" > nfs mount + sync exportfs option can be alternative to using O_SYNC or > O_DIRECT in the application (to guarantee everything written by application > hits the disk). mount -osync under NFS works exactly the same as under any other filesystem, so yes... Trond -- 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