Re: Stale File handles keep coming back

[Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>]

Hi all,

just for the records: I'm experiencing the same problem after
I upgraded from the SuSE kernel 2.6.8-24.11 to 2.6.8-24.14
(official SuSE update). The PC server and the client are running
the 2.6.8-24.14 kernel, we have an additional NFS server running
the SLES 9 kernel-pseries64-2.6.5-7.151.

Our users have exactly the same symptoms, either on their homes
or on directories mounted from the pSeries. It happens when
they e.g. have an xterm with a shell and chdir to a directory,
do sth. in there, and then leave the shell untouched for say 30
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.

I'm currently trying to the cut the environment down to a base
scenario by e.g. throwing out all other NFS mounts that we have
from other domains etc. I will try the things you proposed and
send the results here.

Just to report that... Maybe it makes it easier to find the bug when
it's known to happen in 2.4 and 2.6...

cu,
Frank


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