I am wondering what exactly will happen if a delayed write goes wrong. It seems to me that the kernel will just clear the error flag and mark the buffer as delayed write again. This gives the buffer a second chance. But how many chances at most a buffer can get before it is aborted. While this may seem not serious on a local filesystem. Consider the NFS case, if a delayed write to a NFS server fails, how many times will we retry? My understanding is that the user program will not notice these retries or aborts until it closes the file. Am I right? Please clarify this for me. Before 4.0, if we write something to a write-protected floppy, the system will panic. Obviously, this panic does not happen on 4.0+. So I guess that the retries must have a limit. Any help is appreciated. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
