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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>
Cc: Linux NFS mailing list <nfs@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Random ESTALE due to lookup "/" in mount point?
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:20:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156350025.5619.14.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060823150941.GA13000@janus>

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 17:09 +0200, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> NFSv3, udp, client=2.6.17.8, server=tru64
> 
> On the client I started to get some random ESTALE errors which disappeared
> quickly afterwards without a remount. The errors only occurred when typing
> 
> 	stat ..
> 
> in a subdirectory of a mountpoint. Doing ls -al in that subdirectory
> gave an ESTALE only on "..". I could even change directory to / and back
> without an ESTALE but the "stat .." command still gave an ESTALE.
> 
> A "tcpdump -i eth0 udp port 2049 -n -s 1500" showed something which is
> unusual to my knowledge. The kernel tried to lookup "/" in the mount
> point as it seems:

I've never seen that, and my own kernel certainly appears to do no such
thing when I stat '..'.

Any chance of a 'strace' with that?

Cheers,
  Trond


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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-23 15:09 Random ESTALE due to lookup "/" in mount point? Frank van Maarseveen
2006-08-23 16:20 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2006-08-24 23:19   ` Frank van Maarseveen

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