I don't know if/how this is related to XFS, but if you change the SCSI
ID of a disk during a reboot that has NFS client mounts, then you will
get a Stale NFS file handle on the client after a server reboot. A way
round this is to use the relatively new fsid=N export option in
/etc/exportfs - in this way you can change the SCSI ID without the
clients caring. You need to be running the latest nfs-utils (1.0.3) and
have a recent kernel (2.4.21-rc2 should have support) to use this
option.
James Pearson
Nicolas Kowalski wrote:
>
> Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas.Kowalski@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas.Kowalski@xxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >> Hello.
> >>
> >> I am experiencing a very weird behaviour on our main fileserver,
> >> running a 2.4.21-rc2-xfs (cvs yesterday) :
>
> I finally found what was wrong. One of our ~30 Linux NFS clients, with
> a "Stale NFS file handle" which occured during the server reboot was
> causing the errors on the Server.
>
> I still think this is a weird behaviour (nfsd or xfs related, I do not
> know), but this does not matter, as I know now how to resolve it.
>
> Sorry for the noise.
>
> --
> Nicolas
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