What options did you use when mounting the NFS file system? It sounds
like an attribute caching problem. Did you turn off attribute cachine?
(By mounting with the noac or other similar options.)
On Feb 6, 9:33am, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Subject: Solaris 2.5 NFS apparent bug - ideas for workaround?
> We have discovered what appears to be a bug in the client
implementation
> of NFS in Solaris 2.5. If it isn't a bug, it's a worrying
incompatibility.
> It can affect versions of Exim that are being used to do local
> deliveries into NFS-mounted files.
>
...
> What I need is a way of forcing the client to fetch the file size from
> the NFS server _after_ it has got the lock. Any ideas?
>
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