Re: NFS problem w/ 2.1.63

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 09:02:29 -0500


Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> During the course of applying patch-2.1.63 to an NFS-mounted tree (and
> cleaning up a large number of *.orig files afterwards), linux/include
> disappeared. I resurrected it by forcibly umount-ing the server as root
> and letting the automounter re-grab it. Bingo! Everything fine.
>
> This was the only log entry:
>
> Nov 13 21:15:32 amd kernel: d_alloc: 889 unused, pruning dcache
> Nov 13 21:15:33 amd last message repeated 13 times
> Nov 13 21:17:10 amd kernel: nfs_revalidate_inode: getattr failed, error=-2
> Nov 13 21:17:47 amd last message repeated 4 times

I'm not sure what would have caused it, but the getattr call failing is
probably for the linux/include directory. If the client can't do a
getattr, it can't use the directory.

Regards,
Bill