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

[Attila Nagy]

  On 08/03/2010 03:44 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> 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?
>
No.