Wierd NFS problem

Greg Whalin (gwhalin@numerix.com)
Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:13:30 -0600


I have noticed a slight bug/problem with NFS. Here is my setup and how
to reproduce it.

Linux system running 2.2.0 pre4 ac2 with knfsd serving a disk to several
clients.

I have as clients a Linux box (same kernel), a SunOS, a Solaris, AIX,
HPUX, and IRIX. All clients are affected EXCEPT for the Linux box.

Basically, what happens is that I am losing file modification times in
ls output. Here is how I reproduce ...

> ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 gwhalin users 512 Jan 08 12:34 sample.txt

I then edit the file with vi ... make some changes and save. Then, I
check ls ..

> ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 gwhalin users 545 Jan 08 1999 sample.txt

As I said, this affects all of the clients but the Linux client. Every
client works as expected when not in the NFS mounted partition. This is
not a major problem, but it is messing up some scripts that rely on file
modification times.

Thanks,

Greg

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Gregory Whalin
gwhalin@numerix.com

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