[CentOS] files not showing up in an nfs mounted filesysetm in timely manner

[Alan Sparks]

Blackburn, Marvin wrote:
>
> We have and nfs mount from a windows pc nfs server.  A file is created
> on the server, but can take as long as 50 seconds to become available
> on the client.
>
> We are running Centos 5.2 (final), using NFS version 3.  Is there
> anything we can do from the client side to see the file more quickly. 
> The files are very small, usually about 1k
>

Look at the "nfs" man page and consider mount options such as acdirmin,
acdirmax (or actimeo), possibly even noac in specific circumstances.
-Alan