From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 12:02:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA15375 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:02:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA15369 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:02:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA17820; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:27:33 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601111927.MAA17820@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Stale NFS file handle To: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:27:33 -0700 (MST) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601111655.SAA27202@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from "John Hay" at Jan 11, 96 06:55:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > '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. Can you provide a way of repeating the problem in situ? Will it work against non-FreeBSD servers or with non-FreeBSD clients? (ie: have you localized the problem to the server or client code?). Is it possible the the handle is, in fact, stale? What if you disable the lease code (assuming NFSv3)? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.