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  1. Bug #420508
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 420508

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The required semantics indicate that a process which does stat, write, stat, should see a different mtime on the file in the results from the second stat call compared to the mtime in the results from the first stat call. File times in NFS are maintained strictly by the server, so the file mtime will not be updated until the data has been transmitted to the server via the WRITE NFS protocol operation. Simply copying data into the pagecache is not sufficient to cause the mtime to be updated. This is one place where NFS differs from local file systems. Therefore, an NFS filesystem which is under a heavy write workload may result in stat calls having a high latency, sometimes up to 30 seconds.