On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Ryan wrote:
> Even so.. I've still had to 'touch' half the time. Though I access my JSP
> code through windows via samba. Dunno if that has anything to do with it.
>
Yes, it absolutely does.
Network file systems often cache directory information about the files you
access, in order to avoid lots of network traffic. Thus, a file can be
changed on the Samba server (with an updated timestamp), and the Samba
client (i.e. the machine Tomcat is running on) does not know that.
IMHO, running your webapps via a network file system (Windows shared
disks, Samba, Unix NFS, etc.) is not a good idea. You'd be much better
off (and have much better performance) if you moved Tomcat to where the
files are located, rather than the other way around.
>
> -ryan
>
Craig McClanahan
