NFS consistency problem?

[Charland, Denis]

> 
> Hi Denis,
> 
> thanks for your suggestion.
> 
> I tried and now my options are:
> sync,rw,fsid=0,insecure,no_subtree_check,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534
> 
> (afterwards exportfs -r and a remount at the client side)
> 
> It still happens:
> 
> I log onto computer A as user X, onto computer B as the same 
> user X. Now, at 
> the bash prompt I type
>   echo A >> file.txt
> on computer A, afterwards
>   echo B >> file.txt
> on computer B and so on.
> 
> cat file.txt gives me
>   A
>   A
>   A
> 
> So, A did not get notified about the changes, B made.
> 
> And, by the way, shouldn't async still guarantee coherency?
> 

Jonathan,

As suggested by Trond Myklebust, you should read faq a8 on sourceforge.net. There's a few mount options you can try to help maintain coherency.

Denis