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SubjectRe: Cache invalidation bug in NFS v3 - trivially reproducible
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ty den 11.10.2005 Klokka 11:09 (+0200) skreiv Leif Nixon:
> Hi,
>
> We have come across a bug where a NFS v3 client fails to invalidate
> its data cache for a file even though it realizes that the file
> attributes have changed. We have been able to recreate the bug on a
> range of kernel versions and different underlying file systems.
>
> Here's a minimal way to reproduce the error (there seems to be some
> timing issues involved, but this has worked at least 90% of the time):
>
> NFS client n1 NFS client n2
>
> $ echo 1 > f
> $ cat f
> 1
> $ touch .
> $ echo 2 > f
> $ touch f
> $ cat f
> 1
>
> Now client n2 is stuck in a state where it uses its old cached data
> forever (or at least for several hours):

Yep. I can see a problem whereby the cache is "losing" consistency
information when you do this sort of thing. I'm working on a fix.

Cheers,
Trond

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