Re: Caching files in nfsd was Re: [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink

[Andi Kleen]

> The only issue that I can see (except for simple coding) is that as
> NFS cannot be precise about closing at the *right* time we would be
> changing from closing too early (and so re-opening) to closing too
> late.
> Would this be an issue for any filesystem?  My feeling is not, but I'm
> open to opinions....

The only potential issue I see is that forcing a flush when the file system
fills up may be a good idea to drop preallocations (but then one would hope 
that a fs with preallocation does this already automatically, so it hopefully 
won't be needed in nfsd) 

-Andi