Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> writes: > I've resisted this because I'm concerned that if we delay the > opening of the file on the destination, it could fail. That's a > very late failure and that makes me uncomfortable as just a work > around for NFS.
I don't know much about NFS's semantics with cache-coherency, but I take it there isn't some sort of synchronisation operation that works on a file descriptor and could be done instead as the vm starts and stops to avoid having to delay the open itself? I agree with you that failing this late could make for some rather nasty behaviour compared to the current version. Cheers, Chris.
