From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Stale File handles keep coming back
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:14:09 +1000
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Cc: Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>,
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To: Kris Vassallo <kris@linuxcertified.com>
In-Reply-To: message from Kris Vassallo on Wednesday May 11
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On Wednesday May 11, kris@linuxcertified.com wrote:
> Ok, well I have found very good success in killing this stupid stale
> file handle problem in the 2.6.11 kernel by switching from ext3 to ext2
> and then rebooting. For the past 5 days not 1 of my developers has
> complained about this issue. 
> Obviously if this machine goes down and a fsck starts running on the 750
> GB of data, I am in some deep doo doo, but for now I am using this as a
> way of getting around the problem until someone comes up with a nifty
> patch. 

It seems likely that this problem is related to the b-tree based
directory indexing use in ext3.

You could try using tune2fs to make sure this is turned off, and try
ext3 again.

NeilBrown


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