* Brian de Alwis <bsd@cs.ubc.ca> [020316 23:18] wrote:
> On 2002.03.16 20:04:23 -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:
> > With soft mounts there is no guarantee on the integrity of the data
> > that you write to the NFS mounted partition.
> 
> Does that mean that a write operation can fail, but seem to
> succeed (no failure error-code for the write(2))?  Or is because
> many programs ignore the write(2) return-results?

This can always happen when running nfsiod.  You need to pay
careful attention to the return from close(2) or fsync(2)
to make sure your file is intact when using async nfs requests
via nfsiod.

-Alfred