Hello all,
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:51:17PM +1300, Barry Shaw wrote:
> I'm posting to this list as a last resort, I've scoured the net for an answer
> and I cant find any archives of this mailing list to see if I'm the 100th
> person to ask this 8)
>
> We've got a problem with the automounter on our main file server. As usual
> the automount brings peoples homes into /home/<user> on demand. Other machines
> on the network also mount homes off this machine using the automounter in a similar
> way.
>
> The problem arises when we get a stale NFS handle in /home and the automounter
> dies. The automounter wont restart, complaining that its already running or
> /home is busy. This seems to come from the entries in /proc/mounts.
>
> Is there anyway to clear this without having to restart the machine? (which
> causes stale NFS file handles on the clients, which then need restarting.....)
> I thought there might be a way to send a signal or command to /proc/mount
> along the lines of how you tell /proc/scsi/scsi to add or remove a device from
> the bus.
I noticed generally problems with the kernel nfs-server in the 2.2 series:
If a machine with knfsd goes down and comes up later, nfs clients of this
machine see stale nfs handles and didn't continue with nfs operations.
With the userland nfsd this has worked.
Anybody knows something abot this iussue (known, when to be fixed etc...) ?
Thanks for any info.
Greetings
Hermann
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