Re: why do i get "Stale NFS file handle" for hours?

[Sven Köhler]

> So, there are 3 possibilities:
>
>  1) You are exporting a non-supported filesystem, (e.g. FAT). See the
> FAQ on http://nfs.sourceforge.org.

I'm exporting a reiserfs.

>  2) A bug in your initscripts is causing the table of exports to be
> clobbered. Running "exportfs" in legacy 2.4 mode (without having the
> nfsd filesystem mounted on /proc/fs/nfsd) appears to be broken for me at
> least...

So there should be a filesystem mounted to /proc/fs/nfsd? This isn't the 
case on my machine. Should the init-script do a simple "mount -t nfsd 
none /proc/fs/nfsd"? Than this would be a Bug of my distribution (Gentoo).

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