On 5/24/2014 12:50 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Now that I have the problem resolved, I'd like to figure out how to 
> stop it from happening again. From my dim understanding of what I read 
> about this error message on the net, apparently it happens when the 
> server changes a file on the share. The server (the laptop) is 
> constantly accessing files on the share because some are distros that 
> I continue to seed with the laptop. But this is the first time the 
> "Stale NFS Handle" error happened, even though I have been seeding for 
> ages. In other words, just accessing the files must not be enough to 
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With NFS the server and multiple clients can change files, however the 
server many not dismount/remount the physical file system with affecting 
the clients.  Dismounting the physical file system will change the NFS 
handle which any active clients detect.  The client will refuse to do 
anything because it has a stale map of where files are on the file 
system.  Usually just unmount/remount on the client will fix this, so 
there was something seriously amiss on your server.  Check your logs to 
see if the server had unmounted the file system due to errors.
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