This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Thu Jun 13 12:43:32 2024 Received: from spaans.ds9a.nl (adsl-xs4all.ds9a.nl [213.84.159.51]) by kylie.puddingonline.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g8IGEGX23380 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:14:18 +0200 Received: (qmail 1557 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2002 07:11:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO spaans.ds9a.nl) (3ffe:8280:10:360:202:44ff:fe2a:a1dd) by mayo.ipv6.ds9a.nl with SMTP; 18 Sep 2002 07:11:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 11839 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Sep 2002 20:47:18 -0000 Received: (maildatabase); juh Received: (qmail 5656 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2001 07:32:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 5588 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2001 07:32:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO outpost.powerdns.com) (::ffff:213.244.168.211) by spaans.ds9a.nl with SMTP; 4 Dec 2001 07:32:00 -0000 Received: from unused (vger.kernel.org [199.183.24.194]) by outpost.powerdns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B77C6506 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 01:53:14 +0100 (CET) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 19:21:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 19:14:52 -0500 Received: from zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.157]:55184 "EHLO zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:59:11 -0500 Received: from zcars04f.ca.nortel.com (zcars04f.ca.nortel.com [47.129.242.57]) by zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fB3FwOd21828 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:58:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from zcard015.ca.nortel.com by zcars04f.ca.nortel.com; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:58:25 -0500 Received: from zcard0k6.ca.nortel.com ([47.129.242.158]) by zcard015.ca.nortel.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id X6VFGB85; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:57:15 -0500 Received: from pcard0ks.ca.nortel.com ([47.129.117.131]) by zcard0k6.ca.nortel.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id XRF1DH2P; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:57:15 -0500 Received: from nortelnetworks.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pcard0ks.ca.nortel.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 490A6409 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:02:23 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3C0BA20F.946E0F1B@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 11:02:23 -0500 From: "Christopher Friesen" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.16 i686) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: possible to do non-blocking write to NFS? References: <200010131722.e9DHMwL17616@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> <39EC6F4E.8FC87501@nortelnetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Orig: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Spam-Tag: 1 Lines: 23 Is there any way to write to an NFS-mounted filesystem in a way that will avoid all of the NFS retries? Basically I want to try a write, and if the server is not accessable I want to return immediately with an error code. Would setting the O_NONBLOCK flag on opening the file give me this behaviour? Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/