Hi, I have been intermittently seeing a "Stale NFS file handle" error from a Java app we use to resize images and save them to a file on an NFS mounted directory. An example of the code in Java is; File outputFile = new File(outputDir, (new StringBuilder()).append(filePrefix).append(ifile.getName()).toString()); BufferedImage large = ImageIO.read(inputFile); BufferedImage scaled = scale(large, width, height); ImageIO.write(scaled, "jpg", outputFile); And about once in every 10 thousand writes, it throws the following error; java.io.IOException: Stale NFS file handle at java.io.RandomAccessFile.close(RandomAccessFile.java:573) at javax.imageio.stream.FileImageOutputStream.close(FileImageOutputStream.java:160) at javax.imageio.ImageIO.write(ImageIO.java:1519) at com.hz.pagemill.process.ImageScaler.scale(ImageScaler.java:47) The NFS3 protocol specification defines a Stale File handle error as follows; (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1813) NFS3ERR_STALE Invalid file handle. The file handle given in the arguments was invalid. The file referred to by that file handle no longer exists or access to it has been revoked. The way the code works prevents 2 processes creating the same file, so I am pretty sure that whatever is moving, renaming or deleting the file is not part of the java app. We are running the default nfs server with RHEL4; [root@aspdb01 ~]# modinfo nfsd filename: /lib/modules/2.6.9-55.0.9.ELsmp/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko license: GPL author: Olaf Kirch <okir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> depends: sunrpc,exportfs,lockd,nfs_acl vermagic: 2.6.9-55.0.9.ELsmp SMP gcc-3.4 with the following export options; [root@aspdb01 ~]# cat /etc/exports /myshareZZZ *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) (I have tried it with, and without no_subtree_check) I was hoping to get some pointers on debugging the issue. Many Thanks, Tom H ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs _______________________________________________ Please note that nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is being discontinued. Please subscribe to linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx instead. http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-nfs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
