On the silliness of close() giving EDQUOT

[Richard Tobin]

In article <BZS.90Oct20172142 at world.std.com> bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>I assume by NFS you mean the NFS from Sun. Writes are always
>synchronous in NFS or must appear to be (or are non-compliant and
>you're on your own.) So fsync() for writes is a no-op and irrelevant
>in that case.

The writes performed by the client kernel to the remote server must be
synchronous, so that a server crash is transparent.  Writes by the
application don't need to be synchronous - the client kernel may buffer
them - since it is not required that client crashes be transparent (:-).

-- Richard
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