On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Jon Lewis wrote:
Are there any known issues with XFS and NFS in 2.4? I just had a server
(running and old kernel) lock up and get upgraded to 2.4.31-xfscvs20050617
(it's been running on our test server almost 2 months) on reboot. After the
reboot, the two NFS clients of this server were having serious issues. They
could ls the exported/mounted directory, but could not read files or
directories within that directory. Attempts to do so would result in "Stale
NFS file handle" errors.
After a bunch of reboots on the server and clients, NFS mostly works, but
still gives occasional Stale NFS file handle errors.
We eventually found that even after we thought it was "mostly working" it
really wasn't. Only the failure mode had changed from "Stale
NFS file handle" and an inability to access below the mounted directory to
full directory traversal, but i/o errors when trying to read files. We
ended up having to downgrade to an older kernel.
I did a cvs recheckout, and I see there have been xfs changes in 2.4 in
the past two months, but I'm very hesitant to try again unless its known
that XFS+NFS was broken in CVS 2-3 months ago and is believed to be fixed
now. Had anyone else run into this?
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