On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:56:26 +0100
Kostas Georgiou <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:24:09AM +0100, Owen Synge wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 09:32:51 +0100
> > Greig A Cowan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > >
<snip/>
> POSIX does not require you to block, nfs for example (not that it's
> posix compliant) has the soft mount option that will give you an I/O
> error in case of a timeout. You can (if it's sensible to do so is
> another matter) just send an I/O error (return EIO) if the file
> somehow disappears (because the pool is down or whatever).
>
> Kostas
Yes, sorry you are quite correct,
I should really also state I have no problem with async POSIX. I just
object to synchronous file system calls.
Regards
Owen
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