Re: Stale File handles keep coming back

[Kris Vassallo <kris@linuxcertified.com>]

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On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 04:11, Frank Steiner wrote:

> Frank Steiner wrote
> 
> > minutes. After this time, they do a "ls" and get
> > 
> > ls: .: Stale NFS file handle
> > 
> > Calling "cd .." and then "cd <former_directory>", the ls works
> > again.

Ok a question for you. Let me explain what I am noticing: As soon as a
client gets the stale file error, I go to the actual NFS server, and do
a ls in the directory in question. Then without doing anything else, the
client does another ls and then the contents can be seen. I don't know
exactly what an ls does that would make the clients suddenly work again.

Are you able to do something similar?

-Kris


> 
> We just figured out that the files in the directory can be viewed when
> doing "ls specific_file":
> 
> wirth [13:09] lx003umv.default 55) ls -la
> ls: .: Stale NFS file handle
> wirth [13:10] lx003umv.default 56) ls -la defaults.ini
> -rw-------    1 tester   users          24 Apr 29 13:10 defaults.ini
> wirth [13:10] lx003umv.default 57) ls -la
> ls: .: Stale NFS file handle
> 
> So just "." goes stale, everything below seems to be sane. Maybe that
> info is helpful...
> 
> cu,
> Frank

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