[lug] Stale NFS File Handle

[Hugh Brown]

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