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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.0-test4-mm1: NFS+XFS=data corruption
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Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com> wrote:
>
>  Does rpm use readv/writev though? Or does the nfs server? not sure
>  how this change would affect the original problem report.

The NFS server uses multisegment writev.  RPM was running at the other end
of the ethernet, so it doesn't really matter what sort of write RPM
is issuing.