* possible to do non-blocking write to NFS?
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@ 2001-12-03 16:02 ` Christopher Friesen
2001-12-04 0:44 ` James Stevenson
2001-12-04 9:30 ` Alan Cox
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From: Christopher Friesen @ 2001-12-03 16:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Is there any way to write to an NFS-mounted filesystem in a way that will avoid
all of the NFS retries? Basically I want to try a write, and if the server is
not accessable I want to return immediately with an error code.
Would setting the O_NONBLOCK flag on opening the file give me this behaviour?
Chris\x13
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2001-12-03 16:02 ` possible to do non-blocking write to NFS? Christopher Friesen
@ 2001-12-04 0:44 ` James Stevenson
2001-12-04 9:30 ` Alan Cox
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From: James Stevenson @ 2001-12-04 0:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christopher Friesen, linux-kernel
> Is there any way to write to an NFS-mounted filesystem in a way that will
avoid
> all of the NFS retries? Basically I want to try a write, and if the
server is
> not accessable I want to return immediately with an error code.
see the mount options for nfs
under the mount and nfs man pages
> Would setting the O_NONBLOCK flag on opening the file give me this
behaviour?
>
no it would not
James
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2001-12-03 16:02 ` possible to do non-blocking write to NFS? Christopher Friesen
2001-12-04 0:44 ` James Stevenson
@ 2001-12-04 9:30 ` Alan Cox
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From: Alan Cox @ 2001-12-04 9:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christopher Friesen; +Cc: linux-kernel
> Is there any way to write to an NFS-mounted filesystem in a way that will avoid
> all of the NFS retries? Basically I want to try a write, and if the server is
> not accessable I want to return immediately with an error code.
Mount the file system soft. Remember that the error you see may well be on
fsync or close. Also it'll still take some time to decide the other end is
dead not just slow
Alan
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