NFS [un]reliability

[Jim Reid]

In article <85 at onion.cs.reading.ac.uk> west at onion.UUCP (Jerry West) writes:
>With regard to the Emacs filetime problems on a nova of Suns hanging
>off one server.... we found that we had more problems with date(1) being
>different on different machines. Sun have "fixed" ls et al to allow for
>files created some (small) time in the future, but GNU Emacs might be
>falling foul of this. An rdate(8) in crontab keeps things in line.

Of course, you should also ensure the client and server machines have
their kernels configured for the same timezone. A former colleague of
mine was baffled by time funnies until he found that the client kernel
thought it was in California (PST) while the server had been properly
configured for local time in Norway!

		Jim