Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:23:55 -0400 | From | Joe Korty <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] NFS no longer updates file modification times appropriately |
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On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 05:11:52PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > P? to , 03/06/2004 klokka 13:28, skreiv Joe Korty: > > Paraphrased from one of my inhouse customers: "The timestamp of an > > NFS-mounted file does not change when written to, when the below test is > > run on a 2.6.6-rc1 to 2.6.7-rc2 kernel. The timestamp is appropriately > > updated when the test is run on a 2.6.5 kernel. This is with NFSv3. > > The type of system serving up the files does not seem to be a factor." > > NFS is only guaranteed to flush the file to disk when you do the > close(). Your program will just result in a lot of cached writes right > up until the moment it exits... > > ...and no - we do not update timestamps on the client side when we cache > the write, 'cos NFS does not provide any device for ensuring that clocks > on client and server are synchronized.
Hi Trond, Thanks for the explanation. What did 2.6.5 do differently that made it appear to work?
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