From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: More Stale NFS handles
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:15:09 -0400
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fr den 24.06.2005 Klokka 07:48 (+0200) skreiv Frank Steiner:

> There seem to be at least two problem that can cause these. One coming
> from the server side, maybe journaling related. Read the "Stale File
> handles keep coming back" thread. The other one is caused by the client
> and can be fixed by a thread Trond sent on this list. It's also
> referenced in this thread. This one solved the problem at our site.


The client patch you are talking about just improves the way we recover
from ESTALE errors. It does nothing to fix the actual cause of the
error.

The most common actual causes of ESTALE are listed on 

          http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_a10

Cheers,
  Trond



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