RE: [NFS] [PATCH] New patch to flush out dirty mmap()ed NFS pages in 2.4.4

2001-05-14 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Chuck Lever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the default behavior is that close() waits for all write-backs > to be committed to the server's disk. you might add support > for the "nocto" mount option so that waiting is skipped for > shared mmap'd files, but then wh

RE: [NFS] [PATCH] New patch to flush out dirty mmap()ed NFS pages in 2.4.4

2001-05-14 Thread Chuck Lever
the default behavior is that close() waits for all write-backs to be committed to the server's disk. you might add support for the "nocto" mount option so that waiting is skipped for shared mmap'd files, but then what happens to data that is pinned on the client because a write-back failed after

[PATCH] New patch to flush out dirty mmap()ed NFS pages in 2.4.4

2001-05-13 Thread Trond Myklebust
Hi, Linus was not too keen on the patches that circulated last week. In his concept of shared mmap(), he wants it to ignore the usual requirement we have on normal files whereby we flush out the pages on file close. The problem is, though, that we need at least to schedule the writes using the