On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:34:39AM -0400, Jeff Sutherland wrote: > We've suddently begun to have problems with NFS on linux-2.3.9-ac7. I know, > I know, we shouldn't have upgraded, but we wanted to move to Reiserfs for our > server box. Now the thing is giving us fits with random errors like the > following: > > cvs import: WARNING: cannot change mode of file blah-blah,v: Stale NFS file > handle > > This appears to be happening randomly on all mount points and on multiple > clients of various kernel flavours from 2.2.14 to 2.4.8-ac5 and above. No > problems until we switched to ReiserFS although I'm hard pressed to see how > that could have done it since I run Reiser at home over nfs without any > problems whatsoever. Unmounting and remounting the nfs directories on the > client boxes and starting over again does not fix it, either. There are (were?) a couple of problems exporting a reiserfs filesystem over NFS. There is a patch for it available at www.namesys.com, but I'm not sure if it's already in the -ac or linus -pre trees. I think your best bet would be to ask on the linux-kernel list (be sure to include "reiserfs" and "nfs" in the subject). BTW: a workaround is to use CVS over ssh so the CVS server process will run on your server box: export CVS_RSH=ssh export CVSROOT=:ext:jeff@server:/home/cvstree Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
