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From: russ@Alliant.COM (Russell McFatter)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: NFS client has out-of-date files
Summary: NFS problems are a bug in SunOS 4.0.1
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Date: 9 Oct 89 12:54:38 GMT
References: <17787@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: russ@alliant.Alliant.COM (Russell McFatter)
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I also experienced this problem in a different manifestation...  While
using a diskless workstation, I edited a file (on a NFS partition), and
the program I was working on would see the old version of the file for
several minutes.  Turns out that this behavior was a bug in SunOS 4.0.1
(NFS writes are not properly flushed to disk on the server) and it was
fixed in SunOS 4.0.3.  Check out the 4.0.3 release notes for all the
details.

--- Russ McFatter
    russ@alliant.alliant.COM