Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 00:49:58 -0400 From: Chuck McCrobie <mccrobie@cablespeed.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Softupdates & NFS semantics Message-ID: <3B624476.92A36689@cablespeed.com>
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I've been looking at the softupdate papers and code implementation in FreeBSD 4.2/4.3 with respect to NFS semantics - specifically for create, remove, etc. I'm not as concerned about writes since NFS v3 allows unstable writes. Here is my question: It seems that with softupdates turned on, the NFS create call, when it returns to the client, has written neither the new inode nor the directory block to disk. Is this correct? If this is correct, doesn't this break the NFS semantics? It would therefore seem that an NFS server must turn off softupdates on its NFS exported file systems. Is this correct? Thank you, Chuck McCrobie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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