[PATCH] Add man page for vfs_syncops

Ira Cooper ira at samba.org
Sat Aug 10 10:29:15 MDT 2013


On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de
> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:15:29PM -0400, Ira Cooper wrote:
> > > Performance. fsync is very expensive in many situations.
> > >
> > >
> > Do you know the semantics guaranteed here?
>
> No, sorry. I don't think that SMB before SMB3 with failover
> semantics has given much thought into those issues. With the
> replay stuff we have to think much harder about this.
>
>
>
In my very brief read... The only mention I found was in SMB2_FLUSH.  But
clearly, it needs to be better understood.

And I'm sure Chris, and others will have some thoughts :).

-Ira


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