NFSv4 client in RHEL6 gets wrong modify date from NFSv4 server in AIX. NFS exported area is on GPFS on AIX.

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Issue

  • NFSv4 client in RHEL6 get wrong modify date from NFSv4 server in AIX.
  • The sample is below
$ /bin/cp -f /etc/hosts hosts.`date +%s`; ls -l hosts.`date +%s`
-rw-r----- 1 test-user test-group 223575 Sep 17  2068 hosts.1383026670
                                         ^^^ HERE ^^^
$ stat hosts.1383026670
  File: `hosts.1383026670'
  Size: 223575      Blocks: 448        IO Block: 65536  regular file
Device: 15h/21d Inode: 175180      Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (11111/test-user)   Gid: (11111/test-group)
Access: 2013-10-29 15:04:30.434444271 +0900
Modify: 2068-09-17 01:00:39.657981440 +0900 <----HERE
Change: 2013-10-29 15:04:30.437540718 +0900
  • This issue does not occur with RHEL5 NFSv4 client.
  • The NFS area is on GPFS.

Environment

NFS client

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • NFSv4

NFS Server

  • IBM AIX
  • NFSv4
  • NFS exported area is on GPFS.

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