Re: knfsd: lots of error messages.

Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
05 May 1999 15:16:33 +0200


Justin Hahn <jehahn@raven.bu.edu> writes:

> Looking through my logs this morning I found a lot of these:
>
> May 3 18:08:28 finch kernel: nfs_revalidate_inode: Logs/27.log getattr failed, ino=285207, error=-116
> May 3 18:08:28 finch kernel: NFS: bad fh 8e0080000200000000000a00175a04006bbbfe0e00000a0002000000a97aba19
> May 3 18:08:28 finch kernel: NFS: lookup failed, error=-2
>
> I see these every now and agin, can anyone tell me how serious it is
> and what happened?

Somebody deleted/renamed or whatever the file from another machine,
and you were left with a stale file handle. It is perfectly normal.

Note: linux 2.2.7 should handle this sort of thing more cleanly.

Cheers,
Trond

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