Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:56:59 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.9-rc1 bk-current v2 mount "stale file handle" problems |
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On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 12:44:20PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > I just upgraded two of my boxes here to 2.6.9-rc1 pulled from BitKeeper > a few hours ago. One of them is my NFS server, using the kernel NFS > daemon and serving XFS filesystems. The other is an NFS root client, > using the kernel's autoconfiguration and NFS root mounting (using all > default mount options). > After booting the NFS client, I had very strange behavior when creating > symlinks on the NFS root if the link target path began with '.'. Just > this sequence: > # mkdir foo > # cd foo > # ln -sf . test1 > # ln -sf . test2 > ... > Would result in a successfully created link but an error message from ln > reporting "stale NFS file handle". > Switching the NFS root client's mount to v3 from v2 seems to have > avoided the problem.
I'm getting similar trouble, though I've not noticed the nfs version workaround.
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