From owner-freebsd-fs Mon May 4 06:37:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA28967 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 06:37:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from london.physics.purdue.edu (london.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.67.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA28960 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 06:37:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajk@physics.purdue.edu) Received: from physics.purdue.edu (poynting.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.146.58]) by london.physics.purdue.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA25591; Mon, 4 May 1998 08:37:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <354DC47D.F154BC9C@physics.purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 08:37:01 -0500 From: "Andrew J. Korty" Organization: Physics Computer Network, Purdue Univeristy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG CC: staff@physics.purdue.edu Subject: Disabling NFS attribute cache Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We want to run hlfsd (part of the BSD automounter utilities suite), which seems to require the ability to disable the attribute cache on the NFS filesystem it creates. According to the documentation one can force it to run anyway, but since it operates by returning different values for the same symbolic link depending on how it's accessed, any amount of caching may cause incorrect values to be returned. I assume disabling the cache is possible under FreeBSD, but hlfsd and I just don't know how. Please enlighten us. :-) Thanks ... Andrew J. Korty http://www.physics.purdue.edu/~ajk/ Software Specialist Physics Computer Network 85 73 1F 04 63 D9 9D 65 Purdue University 65 2E 7A A8 81 8C 45 75 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message