"stale NFS file handle" problem
Adam Hough
adam at gradientzero.com
Thu Jan 29 23:16:22 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 22:36 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 January 2009 22:10:44 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Both my F10 netbook and Mandriva 2009 laptop have nfs mounts to my home
> > directory and a data directory on my server. A couple of hours ago I found
> > that I could not access the home directory, although the data directory is
> > still fine. I was seeing messages about "stale NFS file handle". On
> > googling I got the impression that the problem was at the client end, but
> > it would be really strange if both clients developed a problem at the same
> > time.
> >
> > I've really no idea where to look, to troubleshoot this. All ideas
> > welcome.
> >
> I wonder if there is any connection with the fact that I had to reinstall
> CentOS on the server yesterday, as repeated power-cuts had depleted the ups
> until the system was trashed. Most things are up and running again, but there
> is a problem with keychain, which I still have to resolve. The permissions on
> the data directory are much looser (since it is shared with other users) so it
> could be an authentication problem. I'll be looking into the keychain issue
> tomorrow.
>
> Anne
Checkout adding fsid=XXX in your NFS server's /etc/exports file to the
exported directories. It helps nfs clients recover from NFS servers
dropping out on them and then coming back later. You will need centos5
or newer kernel/nfs software stack for this option to help though.
- Adam
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