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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 1996 13:48:18 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        ejon@tiac.net (Eric Jones)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org, ejon@zipnet.net
Subject:   Re: NQNFS problems
Message-ID:  <199602192048.NAA13419@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199602181755.MAA00247@ejon.tiac.net> from "Eric Jones" at Feb 18, 96 12:55:22 pm

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> 	I'm having some odd behavoir from the NFS subsystem on 2.1-stable
> (the kernel is from code sup'ed from the stable tree on about Feb 13th,
> the rest of the distribution is from the stable tree on Dec 6).
> 	If I make changes inside an exported filesystem on the server
> machine, the changes aren't always visible to the clients.  I haven't
> waited any large amount of time to see if the changes are eventually
> propagated.  If I umount/mount the filesystem, then things look normal
> again.
> 	I'm using the leasing feature of the 4.4 NFS, so I can see how
> the problem arises, but isn't the server supposed to revoke the lease
> on files that change?

The leases are revoked on reference; not before.  Local cache coherency
is not maintained.

What kind of clients are you using?

Caching NFS is evil.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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