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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: hank peng <pengxihan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: stale NFS file handle problem on XFS inode64
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:04:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111121170459.GA1327@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJNJY8Q--O2Z3K6KFxVKOivwaABk+oRtC1y0eQ0nS1WdPNMwsQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 09:00:57PM +0800, hank peng wrote:
> Hi:
> I have a 4TB XFS filesystem mounted with "inode64" option, and I
> exported it using NFS v3, on NFS client, I entered a subdirectory and
> got "stale NFS file handle" error.
> ls -il showed that its inode number exceed 32 bit limit.
> NFS server: kernel version is 2.6.35.6
> NFS client: kernel version is 2.6.18

Do you export the root directory of the XFS filesystem, or a
subdirectory in it?  If it's the former it should work in theory,
althrough I'm not sure how well 64-bit inode numbers work with a client
that old, if it's the latter it needs a few tweaks to work, see

	http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.27t_NFS-exporting_subdirectories_of_inode64-mounted_filesystem_work.3F

for details.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-21 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-21 13:00 stale NFS file handle problem on XFS inode64 hank peng
2011-11-21 14:01 ` Emmanuel Florac
2011-11-21 15:02   ` hank peng
2011-11-21 15:21     ` Emmanuel Florac
2011-11-21 15:28       ` hank peng
2011-11-21 15:43         ` Emmanuel Florac
2011-11-22  7:14           ` hank peng
2011-11-21 17:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-11-22  0:19   ` hank peng
2011-11-22  1:46     ` Dave Chinner
2011-11-22  3:22       ` hank peng
2011-11-22 20:35         ` Emmanuel Florac
2011-11-22 22:16           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-22 22:15     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-23  1:19       ` hank peng
2011-11-28 11:09         ` Christoph Hellwig

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