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Re: cifs client issue

 
dscao
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cifs client issue

A HP-UX CIFS client mounts a shared directory of a NT server. When a new file is created on the directory of the NT server, "ls" on the HP-UX CIFS client often will not show up the newly created file immediately. I guess it's because of the local cifs cache on HP-UX. What can be done to refresh the cache so that the newly created file will show up by a "ls"?
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Brian M Welch
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Re: cifs client issue

Can you see the file using ls -v?
Steven E. Protter
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Re: cifs client issue

Shalom,

The more likely cause would be server/network load on the NT server or the network.

I'm not aware of any cache that is kept in the CIFS client.

Any number of performance factors on the HP-UX system itself could be the cause of this.

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dscao
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Re: cifs client issue

ls -l (There is no -v) behaves just like ls. The newly created on the NT server will not show up immediately by ls. If a new file is created on the HP-UX client, then ls will show the file newly crated on NT. I feel it is a chache issue. But I will try to do the test to see if it is because of network congestion.