From: "Wally Winchester" <wally_winchester@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: Stale nfs file handle - cwd without path - workaround?
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:45:11 +0000
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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:43:17 +0100, "Bernd Schubert"
<bernd-schubert@gmx.de> said:
> Hello Wally,
> 
> > When nfs1 dies, and nfs2 takes over, everything works - as long as the
> > clients are writing files using the full paths.
> > If the path is omitted, i.e. they are expecting a write to their cwd, a
> > "stale nfs file handle" warning is issued.
> >
> > Is there a way around this?
> >
> > e.g. this works
> > touch /nfs-mount/file
> > (failover)
> > touch /nfs-mount/file
> >
> > e.g. this doesn't work
> > cd /nfs-mount/
> > touch file
> > (failover)
> > touch file
> > (stale nfs file handle)
> 
> really strange, we never had this problem. I think you have to provide
> some 
> more information (/etc/exports of both servers, kernel version,
> distribution, 
> how you handle /var/lib/nfs, drbd? configuration, etc.).
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Bernd
> 
> 
> 

The setup is two virtual machines on VMWare ESX server.
They talk to a shared partition which is really a disk file on a SAN.

Perhaps interestingly, this works:
 cd /nfs-mount/
 touch file
 (failover)
 touch file
 (stale nfs file handle)
 cd .
 touch file
 (works)

$ cat /etc/exports
/srv/nfs *(rw,no_root_squash,insecure,sync)

$ ls -la /var/lib/|grep nfs
           nfs -> /srv/nfs/nfs/

$ ls /srv/nfs/nfs/
etab rmtab sm state xtab

This is a Debian Sarge install.
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