[Leaplist] Any suggestions on resolving "Stale NFS file handle" errors?

[Bryan J Smith]

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 20:54 -0500, Richard F. Ostrow Jr. wrote:
> In the cases I've been looking at, it's been with the 2.6.21 - 2.6.26
> series of kernels. I had fewer problems with the older kernels, but if I
> go back to the older stuff, I can't use the newer video capture stuff I
> need from the newer kernels...

Key scheduling and VM changes have occurred in 2.6.21+.  Red Hat has
stuck with 2.6.18 on RHEL 5, sans for real-time in MRG.

> I've been a Gentoo guy for several years... the more machines I pick up,
> the shorter the compile times (as long as the architectures are "similar"
> enough, (ie, 32-bit PC can compile any 32-bit PC, but not 64-bit... and
> vice-versa)). Usually only takes a few seconds to compile most things,
> with a few exceptions.

I haven't trusted stock kernel.org for NFS support since ... well ...
last century.  But that's just me.  ;)

> Out of curiosity, what reasons may those be? It's been driving me up
> the wall for years from the problems it's caused.

If you ever have a question why Fedora/RHEL does something, Bugzilla it.
There is an explanation in there (typically several).


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