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Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.15.1 + NFS is 4 times slower than FTP!?
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 18:39 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 18:19 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> > man mount
> > 
> 
> async is the default for most filesystems but the NFS standard requires
> writes to be synchronous.

On the server side, note. Not the client side. Justin appears to be
looking at the client, whereas you are referring to an export option on
the server.

The client only guarantees that writes must have been committed to disk
on the server when either fsync() or close() have been called.

Cheers,
  Trond

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