[lug] Stale NFS File Handle

[Lee Woodworth]

Dan Ferris wrote:
> Here's a good one for all the other Linux experts....
Are you using the kernel based NFS server? There have been patches
in the kernel for the NFS server. I remember having some problems
with stale handles using the linux NFS server. It was a few months
back, maybe version 2.6.8 or so. I'm up to 2.6.11 and I haven't seen
the stale handle problems.
> 
> 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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