From: Frank Steiner Subject: Re: why do i get "Stale NFS file handle" for hours? Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 08:47:58 +0200 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <413C081E.9010307@bio.ifi.lmu.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1C4DII-0006y3-MZ for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 23:48:02 -0700 Received: from acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de ([129.187.214.135]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C4DIH-0006eO-Vv for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 23:48:02 -0700 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: I had two issues which caused the same behavious for me. Maybe check those. 1) there was a race condition in the nfs server, not yet fixed in 2.6.8.1 that caused stale handels if the server restarted too fast, i.e., without at least a "sleep 1" between stop and start. Neil sent a patch for this on the list on August 18th. 2) on SuSE 9.0, (maybe 9.1, maybe earlier too) the /etc/init.d/nfsserver script was broken in that it called "/usr/sbin/exportfs -au" before "killproc rpc.mountd" which caused a lot of stale handles. Maybe you have sth. similar? cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs