[NFS-Ganesha-Devel] Re: Metadata sync for create/update operations.
I didn't check them all, but create definitely sets the attributes
before returning. What are you seeing that indicates that they're not
set?
Daniel
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 8:39 PM Pradeep <pradeep.thomas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that ganesha does not do metadata sync after operations like
> create, remove, setattr etc., (with FSAL_VFS). According to NFSv3 RFC:
>
> "The following data modifying procedures are
> synchronous: WRITE (with stable flag set to FILE_SYNC), CREATE,
> MKDIR, SYMLINK, MKNOD, REMOVE, RMDIR, RENAME, LINK, and COMMIT.
>
> Kernel NFS calls commit_metadata() to sync - see create procedure below:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/fs/nfsd/vfs.c#L1460
>
> Is this to improve performance or a bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Pradeep
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