[NBLUG/talk] What does this mean?

[Mitch Patenaude]

I'm guessing that the system is using automount  (amd?... I get solaris 
and linux automounters confused since I don't use either one very 
much.) as a way to autodetect the insertion of a floppy and mount it.  
This may result in a NFS loopback mount, which if you copied the file 
on there, ejected the floppy (without unmounting) and then reinserted 
the floppy, might result in a stale NFS file handle.

This is a long chain of suppositions, but it would explain the stale 
NFS file handle. The moral (if this is indeed the case), always unmount 
filesystems before ejecting the media.

   -- Mitch


On Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003, at 19:16 US/Pacific, E Frank Ball wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:46:40AM -0700, Radford Spaeth wrote:
> }
> } I created a directory on a floppy, moved some file in it, and tried 
> to
> } look at the files (using ls) but I got the following response:
> } Ls: .:stale nfs file handle
> }
> } What does this mean and how do I get rid of it?
>
> I'd guess you copied the files from an NFS filesystem, which had the
> server rebooted or some other problem.
>
> -- 
>
>    E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com
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