Re: [NFS] New version of Linux NFSv3 client is out...

From: Alan Cox (alan@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 07:07:31 EST

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    > So what happens if I store a token in a store via NFS -- I write(2)
    > this token out, send a packet to something else which also has this
    > store mounted, is reads it and sees the _old_ data -- kaboom?

    It is up to the client to avoid bypassed writes on its own write cache,
    inter client coherency isnt an NFS server issue. Basically NFS doesn't
    even try to get it right. Clients tend to use lockf as barrier points to
    commit. (ie flush before lockf, commit before unlock) but don't bet on it

    Alan

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