Local cache? I'm not aware of any caching NFS is doing by default. That is, of course it is doing something, and its consistency model is not strict, but it should eventually get to provide a consistent view for all mounted nodes. I'm not sure that your answer is correct, taking into account that the files I'm talking about were created a day ago - everything was supposed to look the same
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 22:14, Maor Meir wrote: > On 17 Sep 2003, Mark Silberstein wrote: > > > HI all > > Today I was lucky to observe one strange thing: > > PC1 and PC2 have /home mounted from PC3. I found that few _SAME_ files, > > created yesterday, have different timestamps ( both ls and stat output), > > depending on which PC I invoke stat. PC1 and PC3 were identical, but PC2 > > had 3h20m skew in time stamps of some files. I was unable to repeat this > > when creating new files. Weird! Any ideas why this can happen? > > THanks > > Mark > > > > It is concievable that this is a result of local cache on diffrent > computers. NFS is not a good system to use if you want accurate > timestamps(amoung other disadvantages) > > Meir. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
