Re: Problem: nfsd producing stales when restarting too fast

[Neil Brown]

On Tuesday August 3, fsteiner-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Btw, it's not a problem with the init script, I can also
> produce this behaviour manually by
> /usr/sbin/exportfs -au
> killall -9 nfsd
> killall -9 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
> [sleep 5]
> /usr/sbin/exportfs -r
> /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
> /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
> 
> Without the sleep, everything stales. With the sleep, it works
> fine.

Try doing the "exportfs -au"  *after* killing nfsd.
Unexporting active filesystems while nfsd is running almost guarantees stale
file handles.

NeilBrown
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