From: James Pearson Subject: Re: Linux client, SNAP filer, ESTALE Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 16:16:06 +0100 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3ED4D2B6.5805612@moving-picture.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "'nfs@lists.sourceforge.net'" Return-path: Received: from mpc-26.sohonet.co.uk ([193.203.82.251] helo=moving-picture.com) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19L2fV-0002J7-00 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 08:16:45 -0700 To: Edward Hibbert Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Is a 'SNAP filer' a NAS box from Snap Appliance or a NetApp filer? James Pearson Edward Hibbert wrote: > > I have an ESTALE problem. That probably means it's been discussed to death, > but after browsing the archive I'm not much the wiser, so... > > 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=4096,wsize=4096,hard,intr,bg > > We had a power outage on the filer; the clients stayed up. The clients > returned stale errors, even once the filer had come back up, until we > unmounted and remounted all the mount points. > > Is this behaviour as expected, a known problem, an unknown problem, or too > sloppily described to be able to tell? > > Regards, > > Edward Hibbert > Internet Applications Group > Data Connection Ltd > Tel: +44 131 662 1212 Fax: +44 131 662 1345 > Email: eh@dataconnection.com Web: http://www.dataconnection.com > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. > If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a > relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. > Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge > _______________________________________________ > NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs