2.1.46 and NFS directories (caching)

David Dyck (dcd@TC.FLUKE.COM)
Mon, 21 Jul 1997 22:12:02 -0700


I've been running 2.0.30 reliably for quite a while, and
I wanted to give the 2.1 kernels a try.

Is anyone using NFS with success?

I tried to follow the "Changes" file but the nfs code didn't
even complete the make but I've got most of the other "Changes" applied.

If I mount an nfs file system (I can read existing files just fine)
and create a new directory and cd to it, if I create a file
e.g. date > foo
and give the ls command, the file "foo" doesn't show up in the
directory listing, but the command cat foo, reports the contents
correctly.

This seems like a directory caching problem, which I've seen
other variants on solaris hosts before, but never like this.

What's the state of NFS and the 2.1 kernels?