Re: 2.6.9-rc1 bk-current v2 mount "stale file handle" problems

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Sat Aug 28 2004 - 14:59:06 EST


On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 12:44:20PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> I just upgraded two of my boxes here to 2.6.9-rc1 pulled from BitKeeper
> a few hours ago. One of them is my NFS server, using the kernel NFS
> daemon and serving XFS filesystems. The other is an NFS root client,
> using the kernel's autoconfiguration and NFS root mounting (using all
> default mount options).
> After booting the NFS client, I had very strange behavior when creating
> symlinks on the NFS root if the link target path began with '.'. Just
> this sequence:
> # mkdir foo
> # cd foo
> # ln -sf . test1
> # ln -sf . test2
> ...
> Would result in a successfully created link but an error message from ln
> reporting "stale NFS file handle".
> Switching the NFS root client's mount to v3 from v2 seems to have
> avoided the problem.

I'm getting similar trouble, though I've not noticed the nfs version
workaround.

-- wli
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/