david@csvax.caltech.edu (David Hull) (06/06/89)
Has anyone noticed that under SunOS 4.0.1 it sometimes takes a long time for file status information to get propagated from an NFS server to its clients? In the following example, popeye and zeke are both running 4.0.1. popeye% pwd /home/popeye/david popeye% touch foo zeke% pwd /home/popeye/david zeke% df . Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on popeye:/home/popeye 496983 411736 35548 92% /home/popeye zeke% ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 david 0 Jun 5 17:28 foo popeye% echo hello >> foo zeke% ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 david 0 Jun 5 17:28 foo [ thirty seconds later ] zeke% ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 david 0 Jun 5 17:28 foo zeke% ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 david 6 Jun 5 17:29 foo I tried setting acregmax and acdirmax to 0 in zeke's fstab, but it made no difference. David Hull TRW Inc. Redondo Beach, CA david%wiley.uucp@csvax.caltech.edu ...!{uunet,cit-vax}!wiley!david