[lug] Stale NFS File Handle

[Dan Ferris]

Hmmmm.

Figures this would be my luck.

Ok, I took the automounter out of the picture on our Sun E450 (Solaris 
8) and one of the Linux workstations.  The Sun has one error, the Linux 
box seems to be chugging along.

Hmmmm, this is an interesting problem.

I'd try a later version of the kernel, but 2.6.12 for FC 4 has a SCSI 
driver that doesn't like one of my RAID arrays.

Oh yes, the filesystem on the LVM is JFS.  Why JFS?  Because it was 
easiest to resize and it seems to work.

Dan Ferris

Hugh Brown wrote:

>You don't seem to be alone:
>
>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-November/msg01115.html
>
>I have vague memories of reading that LVM2 and NFS don't get along.  Now
>that I think about it, it was probably the extended acl's and nfs that
>didn't get along.
>
>Can you take automounter out of the picture and see if you still get the
>errors?
>
>Hugh
>
>On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Dan Ferris wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Already been done.
>>
>>It's still happening.
>>
>>At the moment, I'm trying to figure out if the automounter is causing
>>the problem.
>>
>>Dan
>>
>>Hugh Brown wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Worst case, schedule a down time, make sure the clients don't have
>>>anything mounted, restart the nfs daemon (and friends).
>>>
>>>Hugh
>>>
>>>On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Dan Ferris wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Here's a good one for all the other Linux experts....
>>>>
>>>>I just moved a bunch of data on my NFS server over to LVM2.  So we have
>>>>about 2 TB of data that lives in LVM and it's being served out via NFS.
>>>>
>>>>So, the problem now is that some users are getting a "Stale NFS file
>>>>handle error" when using their data.  Their directories are mounted via
>>>>the automounter.  The problem seems to show up after a few minutes of
>>>>the directory being mounted via the automounter.
>>>>
>>>>This problem seems random and intermittent (the best kind).
>>>>
>>>>The NFS server is Fedora Core 4, although I'm running on an older
>>>>version of the kernel (2.6.9).
>>>>
>>>>If anyone knows how to make that error message go away, I'd appreciate
>>>>knowing.
>>>>
>>>>Dan Ferris
>>>>        
>>>>
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