Subject: Re: why do i get "Stale NFS file handle" for hours?
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 23:01 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>  2) A bug in your initscripts is causing the table of exports to be
> clobbered. Running "exportfs" in legacy 2.4 mode (without having the
> nfsd filesystem mounted on /proc/fs/nfsd) appears to be broken for me at
> least...
>  3) There is some other bug in knfsd that nobody else appears to be
> seeing.

The fact that we require a persistent table of exports at all, and can't
call back to mountd to authenticate 'new' clients instead of just
telling them to sod off if the kernel doesn't already know about them,
is considered by some to be a bug in knfsd. 

-- 
dwmw2


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