filesystem sync with compute servers

[williamstein]

(This is from a user.)

On home base, do the following :

mkdir foo
cd foo
ln -s bad bad1

Now, if I switch to a compute server and go to the foo directory and just repeatedly run ls in the directory, I will sometimes see the link, and sometimes not. I see similar behavior if I do find . -type l....

(Why might I create a broken link? In the particular case, it was to link to a particular directory on a cloud drive which did not exist in the home base).

WORKAROUND: none. this is not currently supported.