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From: cs@Eng.Sun.COM (Carl Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: NFS writes and fsync().
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Date: 15 Oct 90 18:52:06 GMT
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> Two changes could fix this.  First, invalidate all NFS handles on
> reboot.

	This would break every NFS client that I know of.  It's the server's
responsibility to ensure that file handles are as permanent as the files to
which they refer.

			Carl