[lug] Stale NFS File Handle

[Hugh Brown]

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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