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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Parag Warudkar" <parag.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: Stale NFS File Handle but !NFS
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:56:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081029175643.ad0f1dca.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7848160810231458tea58cf7x362ad03743b564ed@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:58:34 -0400
"Parag Warudkar" <parag.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone got an idea why I am getting the below error with today's git
> while compiling the kernel?
> 
>   LD      arch/x86/vdso/built-in.o
> scripts/Makefile.build:373: net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd: Stale NFS file handle
> make[2]: stat: net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd: Stale NFS file handle
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd'.  Stop.
> make[1]: *** [net/netfilter] Error 2
> make: *** [net] Error 2
> parag@parag-desktop:~/kernel-dev/linux-2.6-wk$ rm net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd
> rm: cannot remove `net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd': Stale NFS file handle
> parag@parag-desktop:~/kernel-dev/linux-2.6-wk$ sudo rm
> net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd
> 
> Even trying 'sudo rm -f' on that file gives the same error.
> 
> I am not using NFS at all which makes this one sound weird!
> 

Is this still happening?

If so, I'd be looking at that new `return ERR_PTR(-ESTALE)' in
d_obtain_alias().


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-30  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-23 21:58 Stale NFS File Handle but !NFS Parag Warudkar
2008-10-30  0:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-10-30  1:24   ` Parag Warudkar
2008-10-30  8:02   ` Christoph Hellwig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-23 22:28 Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-10-23 22:54 ` Parag Warudkar

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