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On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Joe7 wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thank you for reply, but:
> I'm afraid sync mount is not an option:
> mount_nfs: -o sync: option not supported
>
> Tried acregmax=0 already, and that made no difference unfortunately.
> Application level O_DIRECT is not an option for us, so I'm wondering what can 
> be done at mount level?
>
Oops, I saw that MNT_SYNCHRONOUS would set IO_SYNC, but didn't check to 
see if the mount would actually work. Sorry about that.

Hmm, I think that, without O_DIRECT. you are SOL (shit outa luck:-).

rick