From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 12 05:08:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA09554 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 05:08:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA09503 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 05:08:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA03858; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 08:05:39 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 08:05:39 -0500 (EST) From: "Ron G. Minnich" To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org cc: John Hay , kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: Stale NFS file handle In-Reply-To: <199601111927.MAA17820@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > /a/src: Stale NFS file handle. > > > I fear that the only way to get around this is to reboot which > > > is not so funny. > > > Are there any other ways to overcome this problem? OK, in the absolute worst case (you just can't reboot), and assuming the file system is mount on /a/src: cd /a mv src src.dead mkdir src mount /a/src This has never failed me. Then next time you reboot rmdir /a/src.dead >Terry comments: > Is it possible the the handle is, in fact, stale? by which i think he means: Did that remote file system get moved to a different disk, or get changed in some way? The it is, in fact, stale! You did mention that the remote machine went down, right? Did it change? ron