Re: nfs stale filehandle issues with 2.6.10-rc1 in-kernel server

[Jeff Garzik]

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> ty den 02.11.2004 Klokka 14:49 (-0500) skreiv Jeff Garzik:
>
>
> > This is readily reproducible with rsync -- I just boot to an earlier 
> > version of the kernel on the NFS client, and the stale filehandle 
> > problems go away.
>
>
> Huh? The client cannot generate stale filehandle errors: only the server
> does that.

Not saying that the client is _generating_ the stale filehandle errors, 
only saying that they appear to go away when I boot the _client_ into 
older 2.6.9 kernels.


> Have you got a binary tcpdump that shows the problem?

I'll create one if I get time and can reliably reproduce it (rsync 
_sometimes_ shows the behavior, but not always).

	Jeff


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