Re: Stale File handles keep coming back

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

Kris Vassallo wrote

> 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?

No. The client still gets the stale handle. However, it works again
if I do  "cd `pwd`" on the client. So, reading Tronds comment

 > That client-side patch can do nothing to prevent errors from being
 > returned if a server is erroneously generating ESTALE.
 >
 > It will just make it unnecessary to do the equivalent of "cd
 > `pwd`" (i.e. rewalk the path) on the client once the server manages to
 > sort itself out.

I'm a bit confused if this patch would help or not. I will test it.



This might be interesting for Olaf: The problem does not exist in the
kotd sles9-i386/SLES9_SP2_BRANCH/

cu,
Frank

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