Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!geneva.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: WHat is "Stale NFS handle"? Message-ID: Date: 20 Jan 89 08:08:09 GMT References: <55699@pyramid.pyramid.com> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 9 Another cause of "stale nfs handle" is if the server has a disk crash, and has had to rebuild its file system from tape. If they do things as documented, they run a program that randomizes some magic numbers in the file system. The result is that the file handles associated with it are now different then they were before. So when they come up after the rebuild, everybody who has that file system mounted will have stale file handles. Installing a new release of the OS can sometimes cause this as well, depending upon how drastic an installation was done.