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From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Stale NFS file handle
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 18:55:10 +0200 (SAT)
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In-Reply-To: <199601111518.QAA06067@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Jan 11, 96 04:18:35 pm
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> 
> 
> 
> 'blues' is running 2.1R and mounts another machine.
> That machine went down today and came up a half an hour ago.
> 
> But since then I have
> 
> /a/src: Stale NFS file handle.
> 
> when trying to df
> 
> 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?
> 
Now this is a question to which I would like to know the answer also. I
have asked the same question in -questions but haven't received an answer
yet.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za