Re: NFS

[Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 10:15, Derek Glidden wrote:
> 
> It's an option to mounting an XFS filesystem - not /etc/exports.
> 
> Presumably it means something like "writesync" but I'm not sure if it's
> still relevant to making NFS work reliably.
> 

wsync has the effect of making all transactions in XFS synchronous,
it was designed for NFS and is normally combined with turning on a
synchronous writes in NFS. Basically this is for people who want to
follow the original NFS spec - before the NFS server returns from
an RPC, all associated data is spinning on disk, unless you have
IDE write caching turned on of course.

Steve