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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Problem mounting Linux box
Date: 27 Apr 1996 08:37:47 GMT
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden
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boris@macsimum.gamma.ru (Boris Lavrinovich) writes:
>I have problem when mounting Linux 1.3.91 disks on my FreeBSD 2.1 machine
>over NFS. "Stale NFS file handle" message is displayed on any of the file
>commands. If I mount localhost or mount FreeBSD from Linux, everything is
>ok. Any ideas?

This sounds like a NFS server problem.  A ``stale NFS file handle''
is the server's reaction for using a NFS file handle that is no
longer valid (but since the client once obtained the handle from the
server, it must have been valid in the past).

This response is supposed to happen e.g. if the file disappeared on
the server while a client was holding a handle for it.  Since NFS is
stateless, a NFS server never knows which clients might still hold
references to all of his objects.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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