* Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I took the NFS server down to replace a couple hard drives on > Saturday and now the clients are all complaining that the NFS handle > for /home is stale. mounting and umounting the same export elsewhere > doesn't work, despite some claims on lkml that this might do some > magic. ... > Have I missed anything? Is there any way of recovering from this > short of rebooting?
Short answer: no. You can try to force-unmount the directories, and/or stop NFS client (statd, lockd &c), but it doesn't always work. Next time unmount on the clients before doing something like that. Dima -- Q276304 - Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords -- RISKS 21.37
