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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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