From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [NFS] nfs2/3 ESTALE bug on mount point (v2.6.24-rc8) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:48:35 -0500 Message-ID: <20080129034834.GA1190@fieldses.org> References: <20080129010819.GD16785@fieldses.org> <200801290303.m0T33miE028199@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com To: Erez Zadok Return-path: Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:35838 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752322AbYA2Dsj (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:48:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200801290303.m0T33miE028199-zop+azHP2WsZjdeEBZXbMidm6ipF23ct@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:03:48PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > In message <20080129010819.GD16785@fieldses.org>, "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.