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From: Jason Pepas <jasonpepas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: mkfs.ext2 succeeds despite nbd write errors?
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 17:25:27 -0600
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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