On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 05:54:40PM +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
> On 10 April 2018 at 02:59, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> > Nitpick: In most cases the kernel reserves disk space immediately,
> > before returning from write(). NFS seems to be the main exception
> > here.
>
> I'm kind of puzzled by this. Surely NFS servers store the data in the
> filesystem using write(2) or the in-kernel equivalent? So if the
> server is backed by a filesystem where write(2) preallocates space
> surely the NFS server must behave as if it'spreallocating as well? I
> would expect NFS to provide basically the same set of possible
> failures as the underlying filesystem (as long as you don't enable
> nosync of course).
I don't think the write is _sent_ to the NFS at the time of the write,
so while the NFS side would reserve the space, it might get the write
request until after we return write success to the process.
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