[8409] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
RE: Cached write()s, save on close
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Blaine)
Wed Jan 10 18:34:45 2001
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:09:20 -0500
From: Jeff Blaine <jblaine@linus.mitre.org>
To: "Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu>
Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
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> I believe you can change this as root with the fs storebehind command, but
> I'm not positive.
Actually, no, that's what I thought as well, but that command specifies
that when a close() _is_ finally done, return immediately (or when
some number of K is all that is left to write to the server from cache)
instead of waiting for the data in cache to be fully written to the
server.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeff Blaine [mailto:jblaine@linus.mitre.org]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 3:06 PM
>> To: info-afs@transarc.com
>> Subject: Cached write()s, save on close
>>
>>
>> I could swear that at one point I knew a way around this in AFS.
>>
>> We have a user who is not fond of cached write()s and save-on-close in
>> AFS for a particular file of his. He also does not have the source
>> code to the tool which is appending to the file, so modifying it to
>> flush is not possible at that level.
>>
>> Any pointers? I couldn't find anything in the _Managing AFS_ book,
>> the info-afs archives, the FAQ, or the AFS 3.6 docs.
