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From: Chris Perl <cperl@janestreet.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:19:56 -0500
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Subject: Re: File Read Returns Non-existent Null Bytes
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
        Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
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> I’m in favor of staying more hand-wavy. Otherwise you will end up
> making promises you don’t intend to keep ;-)

FWIW, I'm in favor of at least some specifics.  Something stating that
the results of reading from a file while another client holds it open
for write are undefined (point 3 of what was already proposed).