On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 09:29:00PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > I know nothing of this stance. Do you have a reference? No particular one. > I have put a modest amount of work into ensure NFS to a server on the > same machine works and last I checked it did - though I'm more > confident of NFSv3 than NFSv4 because of the state manager thread. How do you propagate the NOFS flag (and NOIO for a loop device) to the server an the workqueues run by the server and the file system call by it? How do you ensure WQ_MEM_RECLAIM gets propagate to all workqueues that could be called by the file system on the server (the problem kicking off this discussion)?