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From: Jason Pepas <jasonpepas@gmail.com>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, libguestfs@redhat.com
Subject: Re: mkfs.ext2 succeeds despite nbd write errors?
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 17:25:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALuDM+DHATW=KvM0XeREygrA5z=6U1n+UyBqv8juXx7mXHa4UA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151107232001.GX29330@redhat.com>

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
> I'm definitely not an expert here, but I do recall being told that
> writes and reads are allowed to return an "OK" indication, but a later
> close(2) or fsync(2) might fail.  That is particularly a problem with NFS.
>
> I'll leave the rest to the true experts on the ext4 mailing list.

Thanks for you help!  I'll move the rest of this discussion to their
mailing list.

-jason

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-07 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <CALuDM+Aw9JCMVbQcRKaaUu+=+xvDpMgL8sUZpT2snz9Qp5DqpA@mail.gmail.com>
2015-11-07 21:02     ` mkfs.ext2 succeeds despite nbd write errors? Richard W.M. Jones
2015-11-07 23:09       ` Jason Pepas
2015-11-07 23:20         ` Richard W.M. Jones
2015-11-07 23:25           ` Jason Pepas [this message]
2015-11-07 23:47             ` [Libguestfs] " Jason Pepas
2015-11-07 23:23       ` Jason Pepas

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