On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Graham Knight wrote:
My hope is that someone on the list knows about this problem and can give me a list of patches they installed to fix it. Any input would be most appreciated.
I believe the problem lies in caching the directory contents. This isn't a problem just for HP. Consider the example below acquired from two different Sun machines looking at the same NFS filesystem. Yes, contents are similar, but look at the modification dates:
drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 4096 Jan 26 13:18 . drwxr-sr-x 82 tkaczma CID 12288 Jan 26 13:22 .. drwxr-sr-x 81 tkaczma CID 12288 Jan 26 11:23 hourly.0 drwxr-sr-x 81 tkaczma CID 12288 Jan 25 16:10 hourly.1 drwxr-sr-x 81 tkaczma CID 12288 Jan 25 16:10 hourly.2 drwxr-sr-x 81 tkaczma CID 12288 Jan 25 15:42 hourly.3 drwxr-sr-x 81 tkaczma CID 12288 Jan 25 11:33 hourly.4 drwxr-sr-x 81 tkaczma CID 12288 Jan 24 15:20 hourly.5 drwxr-sr-x 81 tkaczma CID 12288 Jan 25 16:10 nightly.0 drwxr-sr-x 81 tkaczma CID 12288 Jan 24 15:20 nightly.1
drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 4096 Jan 26 13:18 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Dec 28 09:13 .. drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 28 09:13 hourly.0 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 28 09:13 hourly.1 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 28 09:13 hourly.2 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 28 09:13 hourly.3 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 28 09:13 hourly.4 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 28 09:13 hourly.5 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 28 09:13 nightly.0 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 28 09:13 nightly.1
Tom