Re: nfs stale filehandle issues with 2.6.10-rc1 in-kernel server

[Jeff Garzik]

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> to den 04.11.2004 Klokka 21:47 (-0500) skreiv Jeff Garzik:
>
> > > Does running an 'ls' on the server in the exported directory that is
> > > stale on the client resolve the problem (temporarily)?
> >
> > Yes.
>
>
> This still looks very much like a server issue to me. Could someone who
> is seeing the bug try to capture an instance of the ESTALE error going
> across the wire, and then do a fresh lookup of the same file from an
> "ls" call. I'd like to check how the stale filehandle differs from the
> freshly looked up one...
>
> Please use "tcpdump -s 9000 -w /tmp/binary.pcap port 2049 and host
> my.servers.name" for the actual capture.

Will do.

FWIW my server is running 2.6.9-final.  Client mount options in fstab 
are "defaults,tcp" and server options are (rw,no_root_squash,async).

	Jeff



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