NFS problem: file doesn't appear in file listing, but can be accessed directly

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, August 03, 2010 8:51:34 am Attila Nagy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have two FreeBSD 8.x machines, one is the NFS server (8-STABLE, about 
> one week old), the other is the client (8.1-PRERELEASE from May).
> 
> The strange thing is this, happening on the NFS mount, client side:
> # ls -la 1083536654.80433.be03,S=7592
> -rw-------  1 mail  mail  7592 May  3  2004 1083536654.80433.be03,S=7592
> # ls | grep 1083536654
> ls doesn't find that file...
> 
> Are there any known bugs regarding bad NFS client behaviour (caching 
> maybe) in the above timeframe in stable/8?
> The machine does high amounts of NFS copying, and I can reproduce the 
> above any time, so if it's cache related, it's pretty weird...
> 
> I'm currently upgrading to see whether that helps.

Does touching the parent directory on another client "fix" it?

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John Baldwin