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SubjectRe: 2.6.9-rc1 bk-current v2 mount "stale file handle" problems
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.

-- wli
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