[OpenAFS-devel] ESTALE problem with linux 2.4.19-pre7 (fwd)

[Kevin Coffman]

Here is a patch to fix the reported problem.  This is against version 
1.2.3.

*** osi_vnodeops.c.orig Sun Jan 20 04:01:51 2002
--- osi_vnodeops.c      Wed May  1 15:32:54 2002
***************
*** 710,719 ****
--- 710,728 ----

      AFS_GLOCK();

+     /* Don't try the free at the end if we jump out early */
+     sysState.allocked = 0;
+
      /* If it's a negative dentry, then there's nothing to do. */
      if (!vcp || !parentvcp)
          goto done;

+     /* If it is the AFS root, then there's no chance it needs 
revalidating */
+     if (vcp == afs_globalVp) {
+       bad_dentry = 0;
+       goto done;
+     }
+
      if (code = afs_InitReq(&treq, credp))
          goto done;


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To: openafs-devel@openafs.org
Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] ESTALE problem with linux 2.4.19-pre7 
From: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Date: 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