[Tfug] NFS stale handle problem

[Bowie J. Poag]

What time of day is this happening?



On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:28 AM, John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I've been having an annoying problem with stale NFS handles on my PC.  A lot
> of my working tasks are stored on my (also Debian) filesystem and I access
> them via NFS.
> 
> I never noticed before, but I've recently been using Eclipse a lot writing a
> large Java program.  It has about 25 source files open plus whatever state
> files it keeps open.  After some period of time, usually > one hour, I choose
> to sync with my subversion repository.  That is done over SSH even though it
> resides on the file server.
> 
> Anyway, it's often the case that Eclipse will complain that one or more of the
> files to be synced is pointing to a stale NFS handle.
> 
> Why is this happening?  If it is just one file, I can refresh that file view
> in Eclipse and continue.  If it's more, then I have to quit and restart to
> reload all the bad handles.  Also, if I look at the directory that contains
> the file in question, I can see a bunch of ?????? in the 'ls -l' listing for
> that file which I guess corresponds to a stale handle.
> 
> What can I do to make these go away?  And why are they occurring in the first
> place?
> 
> I suppose before now I've not encountered it because I haven't kept files open
> as long?  But... that's not true exactly, since I know I have previously and
> recently programmed in Emacs and had groups of files open for long periods of
> time and never had this issue.
> 
> It's not breaking anything else, but it annoying, especially since I don't
> know the cause.
> 
> 
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