Your clients are probably attribute caching. The files will show up on the other client, just not immediately.

Most OS versions have a mount option to disable attribute caching (or reduce the cache time),

but be aware, this can affect performance (there's a reason why clients do this).

Hope this helps.

-- Adam Fox
NGS Tools Developer
adamfox@netapp.com

From: Linux Admin [mailto:sysadmin.linux@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:46 AM
To: NetApp Toasters List
Subject: I am speechless: wild NFS behaviour

server 1:
192.168.1.1:/vol/vol1/tree2   /test123

server 2:
192.168.1.1:/vol/vol1/tree2   /test123

ls -al show same set of files and dir
1. touch 1. Seen both on server 1 and server 2
2. CD in existing DIR "test"
    different set of files are seen from server 1 and 2. on server 1 touch aaa, not seen on server 2. on server 2 touch bbb, not seen on server1.
behaviour
I am speechless!
What can this be?