Re: Stale NFS handles on 2.4.1

2001-02-14 Thread Rogier Wolff
Alan Cox wrote: > > The NFS clients are getting > > "Stale NFS handle" > > messages every once in a while which will make a "touch somefile.o" > > fail. > > If they have the previous .o handle cached and it was removed on another > client thats quite reasonable behaviour. NFS isnt coherent As r

Re: Stale NFS handles on 2.4.1

2001-02-13 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == stergaard writes: > What happens is that one machine will finish compiling, and > another machine will immediately thereafter do a "touch > some_output.o". This "touch" sometimes fails with a stale > handle message. Does the appended patch change anything? Che

Re: Stale NFS handles on 2.4.1

2001-02-13 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:31:50PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > The NFS clients are getting > > "Stale NFS handle" > > messages every once in a while which will make a "touch somefile.o" > > fail. > > If they have the previous .o handle cached and it was removed on another > client thats quite rea

Re: Stale NFS handles on 2.4.1

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> The NFS clients are getting > "Stale NFS handle" > messages every once in a while which will make a "touch somefile.o" > fail. If they have the previous .o handle cached and it was removed on another client thats quite reasonable behaviour. NFS isnt coherent > It's quite annoying and I didn't

Stale NFS handles on 2.4.1

2001-02-13 Thread Jakob Østergaard
Hi ! I'm running a compilation cluster with various machines now on 2.4.1 all mounting the same home filesystem over NFS from the central NFS server. All machines are 2.4.1 using NFSv3, some SMP some UP. NFS server is a dual running an SMP kernel The NFS clients are getting "Stale NFS handle