NFS consistency problem?

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:02:24AM -0700, Mike Eisler wrote:
> I've heard that ext3 does not support sub-second granularity for the
> mtime and ctime attributes in NFSv3. Assuming the NFSv4 server on
> Linux uses "ctime" to simulate "change", and assuming the "echo"
> commands are done less than a second apart, this might explain the
> problem.

Yup.  He might want to set up a small xfs partition (which supports
ctime at jiffies granularity) and retry; if that change the behavior,
it's likely a change attribute problem.

--b.