SUMMARY: another "NFS stale file handle" question

From: Bernt Christandl <beb_at_xray.mpe.mpg.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:22:53 +0100

Hello managers,

i asked:
>obviously my understanding of those "NFS stale file handle" messages
>is incomplete.
>
>For several days now i see at the console of my nfs-server these
>messages (once per 10 seconds...)
>
> NFS server: stale file handle fs(3098,1026775) file 17622 gen 32769,
> RFS3_READ, client=..., errno 22
>
>I thought that i easily could identify the "problem-filesystem" via
>the "3098" as a minor(?) device number in /dev, but that failed.
>There is no "3098" neither on the nfs-server nor on the nfs-client.
>
>How can i identify where my problem is?

My understanding remains incomplete: the "solution" was to reboot the client.

DEC TSC (aka Compaq blablabla) said that a "umount", "mount" would be
sufficient, because the client seems to have an open (link?, request?,
connection?) to a file, which no longer exists on the server. But i was
not able to identify that missing file or its location.

Lucio Chiappetti <lucio_at_ifctr.mi.cnr.it> pointed me to "nfswatch",
which is a utility to monitor nfs-traffic and which i was not aware of yet.
See "man nfswatch"

alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com said:
>My guess is that the Domain/Fileset ID is being encoded into the
>device number seen by NFS.

But i was not able to find an appropriate conversion which ends up in
a number that i see in my above error message...

So i did what was easiest (-> reboot) even if i wanted to learn how
to solve this problem without rebooting...

Thanx again!

Bernt Christandl

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