Mount a nfs volume without inotify support /nfs Create a test.bin 1MB file in /nfs Walk thunar to a folder to nfs Append 1MB more to test.bin Refresh thunar view At this stage thunar should display test.bin as a 2MB file. It does not. It still shows the old filesize 1MB. Refresh somehow seems to too optimized and assumes too much.
This seems to be very related to https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5774
Some additional info about how to reproduce: When the file is changed from the same computer where Thunar is running, the file size is updated correctly. The problem only occurs when the file is changed from another client or from the server.
This should be fixed in master. Especially when hitting F5 for reload, but ideally that should not be necessary. Please report if fixed, and if everything is fixed.
Assuming fixed.