Re: Stale Filehandles was: [2.6] nfs_rename: target $file busy, d_count=2

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:55:04AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:40:31AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:

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I only had a few nfs clients doing light load, (kde home directories, and
such) and was able to reproduce stale nfs file handles just by running "find

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/dev/null" on the nfs share.

Have you tried the -mm tree recently?  2.6.1-mm4 even has some new nfsd
patches in there (maybe you should wait until -mm5 though, there are a few

Stale filehandles is the main problem right now, and I don't see how
nfs_raname would be related (just that it was there while I was having
trouble with the stale file handles...)

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.1/2.6.1-mm4/broken-out/nfsd-01-stale-filehandles-fixes.patch

This one looks particularly interesting...

Most of the nfs client patches are for NFS4 or RPCSEC_GSS.  Except for:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.1/2.6.1-mm4/broken-out/

nfs-26-sock_disconnect.patch
nfs-31-attr.patch
nfs-client-deadlock-fix.patch
nfs-fix-bogus-setattr-calls.patch
nfs-open-intent-fix.patch
nfs-optimise-COMMIT-calls.patch
nfs-readonly-mounts-fix.patch
nfs-rpc-debug-oops-fix.patch

These might be interesting to test, but so far I haven't had troubles with
the stock Linus 2.6 nfs3 client.

Mike