YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp> writes:

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> > > I think there was some interaction with NFS related to this.
> > > I don't remember for sure, though.
> > 
> > Yes, with current nfs implementation, simply changing not to pass
> > PGO_SYNCIO will makes nfs code not to use stable write.
> 
> i see, thanks.
> 
> then, how about attached patch?
> - introduce B_STABLE so that nfs doesn't have to (ab)use B_ASYNC to determine
>   if stable write is needed or not.
> - always do async i/o for GOP_WRITE.

Is an error correctly reported?  I guess caller of
VOP_{PUT,GET}PAGES() expects an error to be returned on synchronous
I/O.

enami.