Multiple clients mounted to same NFS folder do not see updates

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Issue

  • Multiple NFS clients access folder located on shared NFS server.
  • After rsync updating files on the mount, other clients do NOT see the changes, even after waiting extended (+15min) time
  • Running "ls filename" over the NFS mount several times refreshes the ls information

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • kernel < 2.6.18-348.16.1.el5
  • NFS client

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