From: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Subject: Re: NFS v3 cached directory content out of sync
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:15:11 -0700
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:08:01PM +0200, Stefan Egli wrote:

> >> ?Question 4: If we'd somehow manually detected such a directory
> >> content inconsistency - would there be something like a 'hey NFS
> >> client, flush all NFS caches NOW' thing?
> >
> > No.
> 
> unmount / mount would - but that's obviously not feasible. bugger
> there's nothing for that...

Wouldn't (admittedly sledgehammer) echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
accomplish this?

Simon-