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

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Thu Nov 04 2004 - 22:13:34 EST


to den 04.11.2004 Klokka 21:57 (-0500) skreiv Jeff Garzik:

> 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.

That would point to some pretty nasty memory corruption issues on the
client then (affecting the cached filehandle in the inode itself).

So... I can't see that any NFS client changes have been pushed to Linus
after the release of 2.6.9-rc2. Is the latter afflicted with the ESTALE
problem?

Cheers,
Trond

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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>

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