From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: Random ESTALE due to lookup "/" in mount point? Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:20:25 -0400 Message-ID: <1156350025.5619.14.camel@localhost> References: <20060823150941.GA13000@janus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Linux NFS mailing list Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFvTA-0003WE-BU for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:20:44 -0700 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.10.4]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1GFvT8-0007yu-Jo for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:20:45 -0700 To: Frank van Maarseveen In-Reply-To: <20060823150941.GA13000@janus> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 17:09 +0200, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > NFSv3, udp, client=2.6.17.8, server=tru64 > > On the client I started to get some random ESTALE errors which disappeared > quickly afterwards without a remount. The errors only occurred when typing > > stat .. > > in a subdirectory of a mountpoint. Doing ls -al in that subdirectory > gave an ESTALE only on "..". I could even change directory to / and back > without an ESTALE but the "stat .." command still gave an ESTALE. > > A "tcpdump -i eth0 udp port 2049 -n -s 1500" showed something which is > unusual to my knowledge. The kernel tried to lookup "/" in the mount > point as it seems: I've never seen that, and my own kernel certainly appears to do no such thing when I stat '..'. Any chance of a 'strace' with that? Cheers, Trond ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs