[lug] Stale NFS File Handle

[Dan Ferris]

Yep.  Standard nfsd. NFS version 3.

I turned off subtree checking, I'll see if that helps.

Dan

P.S.

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone

Lee Woodworth wrote:

> 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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