Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751204AbWILF1m (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:27:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751233AbWILF1m (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:27:42 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.177]:53835 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751204AbWILF1l (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:27:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=G3IW3SQAPigGN5LiLGTh1glO4hT8WO0Qvp+7BS2gBXvHbcwTOedFtl46cKkKuHZuXgYamwdpTFSCFFuy13DUJ6e/fNb5yspudb4dXFArQFmXmnHQHaHaOCjPfyVXd8wBbM8cDrxj+9UuK7CrXPfADYZGUOeaNUM5MPtEaV8Y24E= Message-ID: <4ae3c140609112227k67aaeb14j3cb39b183934c5a1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:27:40 -0400 From: "Xin Zhao" To: linux-kernel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: question regarding to NFS synchronous writes on metadata MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 561 Lines: 16 Hi, I was told that NFS writes metadata synchronously even if the directory is exported and mounted with 'async' option. Is this true? If so, can someone point me to the place where the client write metadata synchronously to the server and the server writes the metadata synchronously to the disk? Many thanks! -x - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/