@ Stefan, I was able to confirm the workaround. I modified my dd to use sync and direct(o_sync and o_direct):
strace -o /tmp/strace.dd.joe.out dd if=/dev/zero of=/nfs_mount/syncfile bs=1k count=5 oflag=sync,direct I confirmed the file was opened with both those flags(From strace): open("/nfs_mount/syncfile", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_SYNC|O_DIRECT, 0666) = 3 I captured a tcpdump and reviewed the trace in wireshark. I can confirm that there are FILE_SYNC writes instead of UNSTABLE. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/709392 Title: NFS client does not submit "nfs_file_sync" write requests when the file open call includes O_SYNC. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs