[Sunhelp] [Help] Stale NFS filehandles

[Bhuwan Pandey]

Hi this could be due to :

your nfs server is down for a long time 
server nfs daemon's are not working
try to umount and then mount that particular fs again.

Bhuwan

--- Robert.Cross at scottish-newcastle.co.uk wrote:
> We've just moved one of our NFS servers from a
> Solaris 2.4 system to a Solaris 
> 2.6 one. After the
> change we seem to get a lot more 'stale NFS file
> handle' messages on our 
> (Solaris) clients. Is there
> some timeout value that I can change to increase the
> time before which the NFS 
> link goes stale?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Robert Cross, Systems Programmer, Scottish &
> Newcastle plc
> (Apologies for the legal jargon that follows....)
> 
>
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