[PVFS2-users] syncing in PVFS2

[Dean Hildebrand]

Hi All,

Another question, again with PVFS2 0.5.1.  I have the TroveSyncMode set to
sync (the default), but I'm noticing that asynchronous disk flushes are
occuring.  The PVFS2 client returns before the data is flushed to disk.
As is to be expected, /pvfs2-storage-space is sitting in a ext3 parition
which does async I/O.  Is this the reason?  When NFS exports a file system
in sync mode, it doesn't return until all data has been flushed to
disk, i.e., no disk activity after the client returns.  My setup is 2
machines with the server and metadata server on one and the client on the
other.

Thanks in advance,
Dean