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().
next prev parent 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
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2008-10-23 22:28 Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-10-23 22:54 ` Parag Warudkar
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