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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 03:28:26 +0300
From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
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To: "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFSv4.1: Remove a bogus BUG_ON() in nfs4_layoutreturn_done
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On 08/14/2012 03:16 AM, Myklebust, Trond wrote:

> 
> The client can't guarantee that. The protocol offers no way for it to do
> so, no matter what the pNFS text may choose to say.
> 


What? why not? all the client needs to do is stop sending bytes.
What is not guarantied? I completely do not understand what you
say. How stopping any sends does not guaranty that?

Please explain

Thanks
Boaz