From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Re: NFS as a Cluster File System.
Date: 10 Jan 2003 16:01:01 +0100
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>>>>> " " == Lorn Kay <lorn_kay@hotmail.com> writes:

    >> NFS V3 and before have problems with "cache coherency".  That
    >> is, the different nodes in the cluster are not guaranteed to
    >> see the same contents.

     > I think this can be resolved with the "noac" mount option
     > (prior to V4).

Nope. It can only be resolved using file locking.

Cheers,
  Trond


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