[lug] Stale NFS File Handle

[Dan Ferris]

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).
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>Hugh
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>On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Dan Ferris wrote:
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>>Here's a good one for all the other Linux experts....
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>This problem seems random and intermittent (the best kind).
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>>The NFS server is Fedora Core 4, although I'm running on an older
>>version of the kernel (2.6.9).
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>>If anyone knows how to make that error message go away, I'd appreciate
>>knowing.
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>>Dan Ferris
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