> That's for cache coherency between different machines. On NFS, it is
> usual to expect that if you call close() on one machine and then open()
> on another, the other machine will see the written data.
And for close down errors. NFS does writebehind, this means the fact
that the disk is full may only be reported to you when the close() is called
and the close fails to write the rest of the data.
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