[JCR-2396] File Journal workaround for misbehaving NFS implementations

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: core 1.4.10
• Component/s: clustering
• Environment: Some versions of NFS
• Assignee: Thomas Mueller
• Reporter: Thomas Mueller
• Created: 17/Nov/09 09:27
• Updated: 27/Sep/11 21:39
• Resolved: 08/Nov/10 10:49

Description

After one NFS client wrote data to a file, reading from another client results in blocks of zero
in some NFS implementations. This is a known issue:
http://markmail.org/search/blocks+of+zeros+%28NULLs%29+in+NFS+files+in+kernels

The Jackrabbit file journal implementation does not work properly in this situation.