Re: Stale NFS File Handle but !NFS

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:58:34 -0400
"Parag Warudkar" <parag.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Anyone got an idea why I am getting the below error with today's git
> while compiling the kernel?
> 
>   LD      arch/x86/vdso/built-in.o
> scripts/Makefile.build:373: net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd: Stale NFS file handle
> make[2]: stat: net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd: Stale NFS file handle
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd'.  Stop.
> make[1]: *** [net/netfilter] Error 2
> make: *** [net] Error 2
> parag@parag-desktop:~/kernel-dev/linux-2.6-wk$ rm net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd
> rm: cannot remove `net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd': Stale NFS file handle
> parag@parag-desktop:~/kernel-dev/linux-2.6-wk$ sudo rm
> net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd
> 
> Even trying 'sudo rm -f' on that file gives the same error.
> 
> I am not using NFS at all which makes this one sound weird!
> 

Is this still happening?

If so, I'd be looking at that new `return ERR_PTR(-ESTALE)' in
d_obtain_alias().

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