On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 09:15:45PM -0700, Lars Eggert wrote:
I can only say that (1) I've been getting these forever, on both -stable and -current, and (2) I personally have never lost any data.
However, I have no clue as to why you and I get them, or what they signify.
I have a vague feeling they are related to a directory changing while it is being read, and might mean that the NFS client sees an inconsistent version of the directory. It's been a long time since I looked at it though.
Sounds reasonable, but I'm not sure if is the case for me:
My home directory is NFS mounted from a Solaris box, and gets modified only from a single client (my desktop) at a time. I get these "cookie" messages whenever I log out of X, when a lot of things get read and written to that mount. Since all those reads and writes originate on my FreeBSD desktop, I would expect its NFS client to keep its cache consitent in that case.
But maybe not.
Lars -- Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> USC Information Sciences Institute
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