Changing Directory Results in Stale NFS Handle File Error

Solution ID: 56

Created: 8/25/2008

DETAILS:

Issue:

When customer cd's to a directory from his NFS client he receives a "Stale NFS Handle

error." Upon investigation it turns out the error was caused by a dangler in the

directory. We remotely logged into the customer's cluster cd to the directory in question

performed a long listing "ls -al" to confirm it was a dangling dentry. # ls -la total 8 drwxr-

xr-x 2 kmccathern swdev 4096 Aug 18 16:28 . drwxr-xr-x 3 kmccathern swdev 4096

Aug 18 16:31 .. ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? 1196748573181.dat

Resolution:

This invalid file reference was moved to lost+found and cleaned up using ibdircheck

utility as follows: /usr/local/ibrix/bin/ibdircheck -r -s /<dir_path> answer [Y] yes to

correct invalid file: Yes Errors found:1 Corrections 1

Note: Usually if there are only 1 or 2 of these ?-------?? ? ? some_file_name in your FS

structure odds are they are just simply a corrupted file which was the product of a

server crash or prior storage event where user deletions renames etc.. were never

completed successfully leaving this invalid file reference behind. In the event you

witness several of these in your name space please contact Ibrix Support to investigate

further there could be an underlying storage issue still present.

Ibrix_S0000056.pdf

Last modified: 8/25/2008

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Changing Directory Results in Stale NFS Handle File Error Solution ID: 56 Created: 8/25/2008 DETAILS: Issue: When customer cd's to a directory from his NFS client he receives a "Stale NFS Handle error." Upon investigation it turns out the error was caused by a dangler in the directory. We remotely logged into the customer's cluster cd to the directory in question performed a long listing "ls -al" to confirm it was a dangling dentry. # ls -la total 8 drwxrxr-x 2 kmccathern swdev 4096 Aug 18 16:28 .