On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:58:19AM -0400, bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 02:53:01PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > The one problem is that the looping forever client can cause other > > clients to loop forever on their otherwise successful writes on other > > files. > > Yeah, that's the case I was wondering about. > > > That's bad, but again, that's due to client behaviour that is > > toxic even today. > > So my worry was that if write errors are rare and the consequences of > the single client looping forever are relatively mild, then there might > be deployed clients that get away with that behavior. > > But maybe the behavior's a lot more "toxic" than I imagined, hence > unlikely to be very common. (And, to be clear, I like the idea, just making sure I'm not overlooking any problems....) --b.
