On Wed 2 Aug, 2000, "Bawa, Rashid" Rashid.Bawa@BMO.com wrote:

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We have a F740 Netapps Filer which has filesystems NFS mounted on to a Sun Unix server (Solaris 2.7).

When new files are created on the NFS mounted filesystem on the filer, the time stamp does not show-up ("ls -la") until later; it looks as though there is some event that triggers the display of the time-stamp.

Sounds like a standard NFS issue - the filer's idea of time is almost certainly slightly ahead of the time on the client(s). ls will see a timestamp in the future (as far as the client is concerned) and just print the date in the ls output, until the client's clock catches up with the file metadata.

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Wondering if anyone has come across the same problem/feature!

Often. You'll see this as almost useful for spotting files that are currently open and being written to, until such time as you closely synchronise your system clocks.

At least, that's what I think is happening.

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