Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 22:24:29 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: Re: Stale NFS file handle Message-ID: <199601112024.WAA28370@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199601111927.MAA17820@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 11, 96 12:27:33 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. > > 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)? > > This is with FreeBSD-2.1 as client and a Netware (NFS) server. I believe the handle is stale (They changed disks without telling us beforehand), but I cannot get it unmounted, not even with umount -f which I would have thought should force it. At the moment it looks like I will have to reboot the FreeBSD machines to clear the problem. The HP machines which also mounted the Netware server, could unmount it with the force option. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za
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