NFS consistency problem?

[Jonathan Schmitt]

Hi Gerhard,

Am Dienstag, 8. Mai 2007 11:10 schrieb Gerhard Schneider:
> No, you aren't. I did report that behaviour some time before (have to
> check the eMails for finding it).
> The clients ran 2.6.16.28 and we are seeing it once a week on one of 40
> machines (mounting with noac option). Touching the file helps sometimes.
> The server file system IS XFS. In the case of that problem I recommended
> to access the "wrong" file via NFSv3.

Good to hear I'm not alone. However, I'm afraid, the problem is much more 
persistent than the once-a-week occurrence you wrote about. It seems, for 
now, that it happens _always_ whenever concurrent write is involved. I have 
not had a single test which did work properly in the last days - and my last 
test did reveal, the missing updates are not simply ignored but could lead to 
garbled files.

Kind regards,
Jonathan