I've noticed that when I make a change on an nfs mounted file system on my Netapp from one machine, it sometimes takes anywhere from a few seconds to a minute for other machines that access the same nfs mounted file system to see the change I made from the first machine. The clients are unix and linux machines.
Example: On my admin host (unix machine), I change permissions on an exported directory. A unix client that automounts this directory takes 20 to 30 seconds before I see the directory permissions change.
Anyone else experience something like this? What sort of things should I be checking to reduce or eliminate this delay?
Try checking the date/time on the filer and the NFS clients. I think you can run into these sort of problems if there are discrepancies.
Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640
University of Virginia ITC Unix Support