Subject: Re: nfs between -current and netbsd-3
To: None <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/12/2005 11:18:07
> quanta:/srv/nfs: inaccurate wcc data (mtime) detected, disabling wcc
> quanta:/srv/nfs: inaccurate wcc data (mtime) detected, disabling wcc

> So what could be happening here ? My desktop is faster than my NFS
> server is it because of that ? How can the timestamps be incompatible
> between two not-very-distant NetBSD versions (assuming that's the
> problem) ?

assuming that you are using ffs on the server,
it's normal if your network and machines are fast enough.

> How can the server be "not precise enough" ?

fix the filesystem which you are using.
ffs file timestamps are not accurate enough for this purpose.
i think chs@ is working to make them use microtime(9).

YAMAMOTO Takashi