Stale NFS file handle

brizrobbo

Hi Folks,

Just tried to do a find inside one of my STAGING directories, and I get this random "Stale NFS file handle" error.

eg.

>cd /iwmnt/default/main/NRM/STAGING
>find . -type f -name '*.html'
(displays lots of files)
.
.
.
./about/policy/documents/1602/index.html
./about/policy/documents/1706/appendices.html
./about/policy/documents/1706/definitions.html
./about/policy/documents/1706/index.html
find: cannot open .: Stale NFS file handle
>

When I say "random", I mean that the find "stops" at various spots in a seemingly random manner.

I've run this type of command many times before with no problems. I know that Teamsite employs a lot of NFS madness, so I am wondering whats going on. I am suspecting that I will need to restart TeamSite in order to remount the shares!!

Any advice is appreciated.

Cheers!

Mr_Cruise

If you have a support account there are some related articles :-

https://support.interwoven.com/kb/kb_show_article2.asp?ArticleID=49286
https://support.interwoven.com/kb/kb_show_article2.asp?ArticleID=1285
https://support.interwoven.com/kb/kb_show_article2.asp?ArticleID=59921

Below is an extract from the first article:

Stale nfs handles are caused when the a file is open on the nfs mount point when TeamSite shuts down without being able to cleanlyunmount the /iwmnt or /.iwmnt mount points. The open files on the mount point will not allow the umount to complete. If the iwserveris then stopped without completing the umount then you will be left with stale NFS handles.

To get around this you can try several things:

* If you are on Solaris 8 or later you can force the umount to complete by using the"-f" option to umount (please see the man page for umount for more details)

Hope this helps

Lee