Re: NFS & Caching

Thierry Danis (danis@mail.dotcom.fr)
Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:22:54 +0100


On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 06:19:10PM -0500, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Thierry Danis wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello again,
> >
> > There seems to be another problem with caching and NFS. I do not know
> > if the problem is on the serveur side or on the client side.
> >
> > My two boxes are Linux running 2.2.1-ac3. The serveur is running knfsd
> > version 981204.
> >
> > The client creates some files and directories on the serveur.
> > Then, on the serveur, we remove all that staff (rm -rf all_that_staff).
> > A few seconds later, we are trying to create again the same files and
> > directories from the client and get a 'file already exists' for each
> > directory.
> >
>
> Isn't there a mount option to turn off attribute caching?
>
>

Thank's for the hint. In fact, there are many flags related
to attribute caching (noac, acdirmax, acdirmin).
I will give a try tomorrow morning.

Trond Myklebust sent me a patch to try as well.

RTFM, RTFM, ...

A+

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	Thierry Danis

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