Subject: Re: Link performance over NFS degraded in RHEL5. -- was :
 Read/Write NFS I/O performance degraded by FLUSH_STABLE page flushing
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Tom Talpey <tmtalpey@gmail.com>
Cc: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>,
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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:54:56 -0400
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On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 09:50 -0400, Tom Talpey wrote:
> I'm not 100% clear on what you mean by removing it. Since it's
> a "no_" option, removing it means that "wdelay" becomes the
> default? That would certainly cause a regression for many.

You've misunderstood. The current default is to _set_ 'wdelay' on all
exports that do not explicitly turn it off.

Trond