From: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>
Subject: RE: Linux client, SNAP filer, ESTALE
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 07:46:00 -0700
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To: "Edward Hibbert" <EH@dataconnection.com>
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hi edward-

> I have an ESTALE problem.  That probably means it's been=20
> discussed to death,
> but after browsing the archive I'm not much the wiser, so...
>=20
> Here's the scenario:
> *	RH 7.2 running a 2.4.18 kernel
> *	Linux boxes acting as NFS clients to a SNAP filer.
> *	Mount options rw,noac,rsize=3D4096,wsize=3D4096,hard,intr,bg
>=20
> We had a power outage on the filer; the clients stayed up. =20
> The clients
> returned stale errors, even once the filer had come back up, until we
> unmounted and remounted all the mount points.
>=20
> Is this behaviour as expected, a known problem, an unknown=20
> problem, or too
> sloppily described to be able to tell?

we've had several credible reports of this kind of behavior
against many releases of 2.4 recently, so it is a known problem.
but we haven't had a good chance to drill into to it, so we
don't know what is happening.


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