From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kris Vassallo Subject: Re: Stale File handles keep coming back Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 17:15:34 -0700 Message-ID: <1115252134.2523.87.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1114463253.2487.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> <17006.13241.129839.558300@cse.unsw.edu.au> <1114554149.4470.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <17006.64544.860436.620665@cse.unsw.edu.au> <4271DBB3.3090402@bio.ifi.lmu.de> <42775C56.9000703@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-cURrwU/J8kqy/OHG0nOb" Cc: Neil Brown , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Olaf Kirch Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DTU1s-0003EF-O3 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 04 May 2005 17:15:48 -0700 Received: from meteor.hosting4less.com ([63.99.109.5]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.41) id 1DTU1r-0007R5-Ag for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 04 May 2005 17:15:48 -0700 To: Frank Steiner In-Reply-To: <42775C56.9000703@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: --=-cURrwU/J8kqy/OHG0nOb Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ", 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 --=-cURrwU/J8kqy/OHG0nOb Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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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