On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:49:26 -0400 Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > However we could adopt the Solaris convention of always starting > writebacks with a FILE_SYNC, and then falling back to UNSTABLE for the > second rpc call and all subsequent calls... > That approach certainly has merit. However, as we know from the wbc info whether the write is small and sync - which is the only case where I think a STABLE write is needed - I cannot see why you don't want to just use that information to guide the choice of 'stable' or not ??? NeilBrown -- 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