Re: /home: Stale NFS file handle
* Dave Sherohman (esper@sherohman.org) spake thusly:
> I took the NFS server down to replace a couple hard drives on
> Saturday and now the clients are all complaining that the NFS handle
> for /home is stale. mounting and umounting the same export elsewhere
> doesn't work, despite some claims on lkml that this might do some
> magic.
...
> Have I missed anything? Is there any way of recovering from this
> short of rebooting?
Short answer: no. You can try to force-unmount the directories,
and/or stop NFS client (statd, lockd &c), but it doesn't always
work. Next time unmount on the clients before doing something
like that.
Dima
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