Re: [NFS] New version of Linux NFSv3 client is out...

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 03:10:19 EST


> With NFSv3 yes. v3 has some very nice ideas. One of these is that
> write is a two phase operation. You do a write() you keep the data
> cached locally and send it off to the server, later you commit old
> data and the commit is allowed to fail forcing a client resend of
> the write.

So what happens if I store a token in a store via NFS -- I write(2)
this token out, send a packet to something else which also has this
store mounted, is reads it and sees the _old_ data -- kaboom?

-cw

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