NFS write() calls lead to read() calls?

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Ivan Voras wrote:

> Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
>
>> What kind of C program or script did you have in mind? My C-foo is very 
>> weak ...
>
> If you have python installed, this is a simple way:

Also good is dd between the file system and /dev/null.  Something worth 
remembering is that some tools (cp(1) in particular) use memory-mapped I/O, 
which may behave differently than raw I/O operations.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge

>
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> print "writing"
> f = file("a_file", "w")
> for x in xrange(1024): # write 1024 MB
>    f.write(' '*1024*1024)
> f.close()
>
> raw_input("press enter to rewrite")
>
> print "rewriting"
> f = file("a_file", "r+")
> for x in xrange(1024): # write 1024 MB again
>    f.write(' '*1024*1024)
> f.close()
> ----
>
> save it to a file, run the file with python interpreter. If you don't observe 
> the weird read-before-write effect, then it's not a problem in FreeBSD / NFS.
>
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