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Date:   Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:59:12 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Handling NFSv3 I/O errors in knfsd
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:58:19AM -0400, bfields@fieldses.org wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 02:53:01PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > The one problem is that the looping forever client can cause other
> > clients to loop forever on their otherwise successful writes on other
> > files.
> 
> Yeah, that's the case I was wondering about.
> 
> > That's bad, but again, that's due to client behaviour that is
> > toxic even today.
> 
> So my worry was that if write errors are rare and the consequences of
> the single client looping forever are relatively mild, then there might
> be deployed clients that get away with that behavior.
> 
> But maybe the behavior's a lot more "toxic" than I imagined, hence
> unlikely to be very common.

(And, to be clear, I like the idea, just making sure I'm not overlooking
any problems....)

--b.