Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from knm.org ([173.10.24.5]:60977 "EHLO knm.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753793Ab3BUVC1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:02:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:01:50 -0700 (MST) From: Mark Lehrer To: "J. Bruce Fields" cc: Mark Lehrer , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Time to declare war on "stale nfs file handle" In-Reply-To: <20130220202114.GA4995@fieldses.org> Message-ID: References: <20130220202114.GA4995@fieldses.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >> been running for awhile and then I fail over, clients get the dreaded >> Stale NFS file handle error on any open files. In this case they are > > That's weird. The contents of /proc/net/rpc/nfsd.fh/content and > /proc/net/rpc/nfsd.export/content on both nodes after a failed failover > might be interesting. Cool, this is exactly the kind of information I was looking for. > What filesystem are you exporting? ext4. Thanks! Mark