From: Garrick Staples <garrick@usc.edu>
Subject: nfsd, rmtab, failover, and stale filehandles
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 11:56:03 -0700
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I'm trying to get a pair of NFS failover servers working correctly.  I've g=
ot
all heartbeat scripts worked out, the common storage, IP takeover, etc.  The
only problem I have now is random stale filehandles after a failover.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

I was originally trying to doctor up rmtab and carry over the mount info to=
 the
second server, but according to recent docs, rmtab is no longer used and NFS
requests should simply always work, as long as the filesystem is exported to
the client hosts.

Is there anything I can do to track down these stale filehandles, what's
causing it, and how to prevent them?  There's a thread going on right now a=
bout
ESTALEs with patches being thrown around, but I don't know if that pertains=
 to
me.

Btw, does anyone know of a *searchable* archive of this list?  The sf.net
interface drives me nuts.

--=20
Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California

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