[OpenAFS-devel] ESTALE problem with linux 2.4.19-pre7

[Kevin Coffman]

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