2008-01-29 03:48:39

by J. Bruce Fields

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Subject: Re: [NFS] nfs2/3 ESTALE bug on mount point (v2.6.24-rc8)

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:03:48PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
> In message <[email protected]>, "J. Bruce Fields" writes:
> > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:37:59PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
>
> > > You can find both an strace and content files in
> > >
> > > http://agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/tmp/nfs/
>
> Sorry. I guess tar on /proc files doesn't really save the content of the
> files.

Hm.

> I cat'ed the content files and alo placed an updated strace in the above
> URL. Here's the content files. In this run, I got an ESTALE on
> /n/lower/b2:
>
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/n/lower/b2': Stale NFS file handle

OK, thanks. This looks consistent with the strace I looked at. So
utils/mountd/cache.c:nfsd_fh() is occasionally getting the wrong result
for some reason.

--b.