From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 12:51:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA22421 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 12:51:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA22414 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 12:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA13419; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 13:48:19 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602192048.NAA13419@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: NQNFS problems To: ejon@tiac.net (Eric Jones) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 13:48:18 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, ejon@zipnet.net In-Reply-To: <199602181755.MAA00247@ejon.tiac.net> from "Eric Jones" at Feb 18, 96 12:55:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.