RHEL 5 NFS client sometimes caches negative dentries permanently
Issue
- Sometimes, when a symlink on an NFS share is modified inside a sub-directory, the NFS client may cache a negative directory entry look-up, providing incorrect results.
Environment
- RHEL 5 kernel 2.6.18-308
- NFS client
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