Re: [NFS] nfs2/3 ESTALE bug on mount point (v2.6.24-rc8)

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:03:48PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
> In message <20080129010819.GD16785@fieldses.org>, "J. Bruce Fields" writes:
> > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:37:59PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
> 
> > > You can find both an strace and content files in
> > > 
> > > 	http://agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/tmp/nfs/
> 
> Sorry.  I guess tar on /proc files doesn't really save the content of the
> files.

Hm.

> I cat'ed the content files and alo placed an updated strace in the above
> URL.  Here's the content files.  In this run, I got an ESTALE on
> /n/lower/b2:
> 
>   mkdir: cannot create directory `/n/lower/b2': Stale NFS file handle

OK, thanks.  This looks consistent with the strace I looked at.  So
utils/mountd/cache.c:nfsd_fh() is occasionally getting the wrong result
for some reason.

--b.