[CentOS] NFS Stale file handle drives me crazy (Centos 6)

[Barbara Krasovec]

Have you tried exporting with options insecure,fsid=1?

Cheers,
Barbara

On 06/04/15 06:00, Ted Miller wrote:
> On 04/02/2015 09:03 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I have a Centos 6 NFS server, which dirves me crazy.
>>
>> The directory I try to export cant be accessed by different clients.
>>
>> I tried a centos 7, centos 6 and a pool of vmware esxi 5.5 systems.
>>
>> At the client side I get errors like:
>>
>> mount.nfs: Stale file handle
>>
>> or Sysinfo set operation VSI_MODULE_NODE_mount failed with the tatus
>> Unable to query remote mount point's attributes.
>>
>>
>> On the server I get messages in the log like
>>
>> svc: 172.17.252.35, port=851: unknown version (0 for prog 100003, nfsd)
>>
>> rpc.mountd[1927]: authenticated mount request from ....
>
> A good place to start on an issue like this would be to include your 
> entire
> smb.conf file.  Since you tried across three different Centos 
> versions, It is likely either the configuration or the clients that 
> are the problem.
>
>>
>> The curious thing is, that other directories exported on the same
>> filesysten can be exported.
>
> Can they be used by the same clients that are trying to use the 
> /home/stuff
> directories, or are the clients for the two directories different?
>>
>>
>> so /home/stuff works /home/students fails. chmode 777 is set,
>> /etc/exports is double checked. nfs/rpc/etc is up and running. selinux &
>> firewall for debugging off.
>>
>> I use xfs on all shared filesystems.
>>
>> Googling for VMWARE and native NFS suggestions did not help so far :-/
>>
>> Any hint or suggestion is very very welcome! Regard & thanks . Götz
> Ted Miller
> Elkhart, IN, USA
>
>
>
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