I've stumbled upon a wierd NFS caching issue on 2.4 which does not seem to
exist in 2.2. Our www docroot is NFS mounted on a NetApp 760. We have a
cron job which make changes to the index.html every 5 minutes.
Recently, we upgraded all the web servers to 2.4 and noticed that there were
big delays in seeing these 5 minute updates. Yet, an ls -l in the nfs
directory on each of the servers clearly shows the new timestamp. However,
a cat of the file shows that it is the old version (sometimes up to 1 hour
old). I was using NFSv3, so decided to try NFSv2, but got the same results.
I reverted to 2.2.19 on the boxes (which are RedHat 7.1 incidentally), and
these problems went away.
Any ideas why this is happening?
-Phil Oester
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