Stale NFS File Handle

sheetalpolaris

Hi,

We have developed a workflow for copying dcr files from one content store to another. We are using the cp command and copying the extended attributes as well in our perl script. The copy happens successfully for most dcr files but for some dcr files the copy fails and the error recorded is that the source file has a stale NFS file handle. We can see these files with stale NFS file handles in the content center interface . Can anyone please let me know why are we getting the stale NFS file handle issue for some files while copying. Is there any fix for this?

Adam Stoller

I suggest you talk to your system administrators, and/or use Google to find out more about the various causes of Stale NFS Handles, but ultimately the best course of action is usually to reboot the server. You might be able to just unmount and remount the NFS shares, but sometimes you have no recourse but to reboot and thus it tends to save time to just do it rather than trying a less disruptive procedure.