Files on CIFS share show no contents until updated
Issue
- A CIFS share is mounted from our NAS on several different Windows and RHEL clients
- A file is updated on the NAS by another system via FTP
- That file can no longer be read on some CIFS clients until the file is updated again
Output from RHEL system displaying issue
#df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
//CIFS-SERVER/share 1.2T 904G 281G 77% /mountpoint
# ls -l /mountpoint/examplefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Jun 28 23:02 /mountpoint/examplefile
# cat /mountpoint/examplefile
# cksum /mountpoint/examplefile
1119974017 176 /mountpoint/examplefile
Output from RHEL system working as expected
#df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
//CIFS-SERVER/share 1.2T 904G 281G 77% /mountpoint
# ls -l /mountpoint/examplefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Jun 28 23:02 /mountpoint/examplefile
# cat /mountpoint/examplefile
<shows expected file contents>
# cksum /mountpoint/examplefile
2807975810 176 /mountpoint/examplefile
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- CIFS share mounted on multiple RHEL servers
- Files on the share are updated by other means
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