Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268189AbUIFQEt (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:04:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268193AbUIFQEF (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:04:05 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:34277 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268189AbUIFP7b convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 11:59:31 -0400 Subject: Re: why do i get "Stale NFS file handle" for hours? From: Trond Myklebust To: David Woodhouse Cc: Sven =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hler?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <1094464633.3986.36.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> References: <1094348385.13791.119.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <413A7119.2090709@upb.de> <1094349744.13791.128.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <413A789C.9000501@upb.de> <1094353267.13791.156.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1094464633.3986.36.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-Id: <1094486357.8342.12.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 11:59:17 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1008 Lines: 24 P? m? , 06/09/2004 klokka 05:57, skreiv David Woodhouse: > 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. That should have been fixed in 2.6.x. If you do mount /proc/fs/nfsd, and use a recent enough version of mountd, then knfsd can and will work without any extra help from exportfs. The one problem I have found with this implementation is that it relies very heavily on reverse-DNS lookups, so it may give unexpected results if you have more than one name for your client. I can't see why that shouldn't be fixable, though... Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/