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From: jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin)
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Subject: Re: Control NFS exported filesystems
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.141138.7555@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 14:11:38 GMT
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In article <1991Jun20.090136.14351@ioe.lon.ac.uk>, teexand@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Andrew Dawson) writes:
|> In <1991Jun19.162331.25505@bellcore.bellcore.com> jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin) writes:
|> 
|> >	Hey...maybe this explains the reason that when I save a file
|> >under VI which is kept on another NFS partition, VI tells me that it
|> >was able to save the file, but because the real physical disk was full I
|> >end up with a 0 length file (and lose all my work).....
|> 
|> This sounds like something we have been discussing with IBM recently. I think
|> essentially the client is cacheing requests, so although write() returns
|> sucessfully, the data hasn't been written to disk. Your application may pick up
|> an error if fsync is called, and the close should also fail (not that many
|> applications check this). However, I'm not sure even this much worked until
|> we'd applied an APAR fix.


	SO....whats the APAR #?

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