On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 06:54:09AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 09:06:49AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > What I meant was--why are we doing a sync at all, instead of returning > > NFS_UNSTABLE and making the client commit? > > Did NFSv4.2 introduce a concept of unstable metadata operations? No, but I think WRITE_PLUS does have a stable/unstable bit so I think we could choose not to do the sync if that'd make sense. --b. -- 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