[tech] grrr... bloody morwong.

[David Luyer]

> David Luyer wrote on Wed May 17, at 12:51 +1000:
> > > >>>>> "W" == West  <John> writes:
> > > 
> > >     W> Well... it seems that it does do the right thing.  It just
> > >     W> takes forever to do it.  *sigh*
> > > 
> > >   Remember that NFS clients cache attributes like modification
> > > times. If you tune the cache timeout down to zero, you might see
> > > behaviour that you're happier with.
> > 
> > You mean people actually turn on NFS attribute caching?  noac is just like
> > rw... you need it to actually use the filesystem :-)
> 
> In my experience the noac flag is generally ignored.
> 
> Attributes are still cached.

It's always worked for me.

If you want a bigger hammer...
  noac,actimeo=0
or if you really have problems,
  noac,actimeo=0,acdirmax=0,acdirmin=0,acregmax=0,actregmin=0
but I've never had to go beyond 'noac'.

Of course I wouldn't actually do mail over NFS, I'd use IMAP for that :-)

David.
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