More 2.1.46 NFS weirdness

Jonathan Corbet (corbet@atd.ucar.edu)
Wed, 23 Jul 1997 15:25:52 -0600

I wrote about my MH/creat() problems a bit ago; now I've concluded that the
NFS client implementation in 2.1.46 still has a substantial amount of
seriously weird voodoo left in it. For example:

% ls
file1 file2
% touch file3
% ls
file1 file2
% ls file3
file3
% ls
file1 file2
% rm file2
% ls
file2: no such file or directory
file1
%

And so on. "file3" eventually shows up in the listing. Offhand I would
say that local directory operations, while being executed correctly, are
not being reflected in the locally-cached version of the directory.

jon

Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division
corbet@atd.ucar.edu http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rdp/jmc.html