From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Steiner Subject: Re: Stale File handles keep coming back Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 08:38:47 +0200 Message-ID: <427B10F7.3090600@bio.ifi.lmu.de> References: <1114463253.2487.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> <17006.13241.129839.558300@cse.unsw.edu.au> <1114554149.4470.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <17006.64544.860436.620665@cse.unsw.edu.au> <4271DBB3.3090402@bio.ifi.lmu.de> <42775C56.9000703@bio.ifi.lmu.de> <1115252134.2523.87.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Cc: Neil Brown , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Olaf Kirch , Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DTwUU-0005pd-4T for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 05 May 2005 23:39:14 -0700 Received: from acheron.ifi.lmu.de ([129.187.214.135]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1DTwUR-0002RQ-JZ for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 05 May 2005 23:39:14 -0700 To: Kris Vassallo In-Reply-To: <1115252134.2523.87.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: 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 -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs