On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Nemo <nemo.mbox@gmail.com> wrote:
i have decent servers that wait for clunk to operate on written data once it's complete. all octopus spoolers do that. 


Heh; when I wrote 'decent', I was recalling the old proposed QTDECENT qid type. I didn't mean to impugn your file servers; they're probably very nice people and if I met them, I'd should buy them a drink.

Let's try to define 'decent' for this thread -- a decent fileserver is one on which close()s do not have any client-visible or semantic effect other than to invalidate the Fid that was passed to them. Lets see how many file servers we can think of that are 'decent': fossil, kfs, ken, memfs, ...

-- vs