From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: Minor problem in nfsv3 write
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:26:40 -0400
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 11:30:54AM -0700, Steven wrote:
> I agree.  I don't think it is a good policy to tell the client that all
> of the data was written when some was not.
> 
> For what it's worth, the RFC says that if the write size exceeds wtmax
> then the server may write only wtmax bytes of the request.

OK.  Could you regenerate that patch with diff -up?  (See
Documentation/SubmittingPatches.)  Don't bother sending the modified
function, it's the patch that people want.

--b.


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