[OpenAFS-devel] ESTALE problem with linux 2.4.19-pre7
Kevin Coffman
kwc@citi.umich.edu
Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:20:28 -0400
I should add that this only seems to be a problem in the root of
root.afs. My real problem is that I'm trying to create the RW
mountpoint for my root.cell volume, but it fails with ESTALE. I can
create the RW mountpoint elsewhere, just not in /afs.
Any suggestions?
K.C.
> I'm bringing up a machine with Redhat 7.2 with the 2.4.19-pre7 kernel.
> (The newer kernel is needed for network device support.) I've got
> version 1.2.3 of OpenAFS built from source.
>
> I'm creating a new cell. After creating root.afs and starting the
> client, if I do an "ls -al /afs" I get an error "ls: /afs/.: Stale NFS
> file handle". This seems to be due to some changes in the
> link_path_walk() routine in the kernel?
>
> Is this a known problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin