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From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
To: Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: client apps not surviving nfsd restart
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:21:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040820132143.GC12371@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4125EA9F.3040304@bio.ifi.lmu.de>

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 02:12:15PM +0200, Frank Steiner wrote:
> 2) We are currently testing kernel 2.6.8.1. The nfs behaviour seems
>    to have changed in some ways. Running e.g. "find /" on a diskless
>    client with kernel 2.4 would just hang when the server rebootet
>    and later go on when the server was back.
>    With 2.6.8.1, the find command will immediately abort and report
>    some stale nfs handles.

I reproduced this. Someone "improved" the init script to do this:

	/usr/sbin/exportfs -au
	killproc -n -KILL nfsd

so we first zap the exports tables, then stop all nfsds. Any NFS
requests received in the meanwhile will see ESTALE.

Try removing the exportfs call.

Olaf
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Olaf Kirch     |  The Hardware Gods hate me.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-20 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-20 12:12 client apps not surviving nfsd restart Frank Steiner
2004-08-20 13:02 ` Olaf Kirch
2004-08-20 13:55   ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-20 13:21 ` Olaf Kirch [this message]
2004-08-20 14:26   ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-20 13:25 ` Bernd Schubert
2004-08-20 14:34   ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-20 14:46     ` Olaf Kirch
2004-08-20 18:28       ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2004-08-20 15:31 ` mehta kiran

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