From: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Minor problem in nfsv3 write
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:25:43 -0400
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J. Bruce Fields wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 06:10:46PM -0700, Steven wrote:
>  
>
>>There is a minor bug in the way writes are handled in nfs3.  If the
>>client requests a write for more than 32k of data the server will only
>>write 32k but report that it wrote the whole amount.
>>    
>>
>
>Our server also reports 32k as the maximum write size.  So the bug is on
>the client side here, isn't it?
>

This would be a bug in the client, but if the server is going to attempt
to write some of the data anyway, then it should correctly report the
number of bytes written.  Otherwise, the server should reject the entire
request.

    Thanx...

       ps


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