From: Frank Steiner Subject: Re: More Stale NFS handles Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:47:11 +0200 Message-ID: <42BBAC6F.7080705@bio.ifi.lmu.de> References: <449CA531-2B73-458E-B632-B1E159637115@jhu.edu> <42BB9EA0.3040804@bio.ifi.lmu.de> <1119593709.10716.6.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Cc: Eiwe Lingefors , 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 1Dlhy7-0000PR-I4 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:47:15 -0700 Received: from acheron.ifi.lmu.de ([129.187.214.135]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1Dlhy7-0003v1-1T for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:47:15 -0700 To: Trond Myklebust In-Reply-To: <1119593709.10716.6.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net 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: Trond Myklebust wrote > 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. Ok, that's right. But with this patch we don't see any stale NFS handles anymore, so we are happy for now :-) -- 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. * ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs