[Pvfs2-developers] "/bin/ls: .: Invalid argument" and "/bin/ls: .: Stale NFS file handle" errors

[Juan Piernas Canovas]

This is the version:

/dcache.c/1.33/Mon Dec 10 17:36:56 2007//

Thanks,

       Juan.

Sam Lang wrote:
>
> Hi Juan,
>
> I think you may have gotten a version of the code I committed 
> yesterday that caused this behavior.  I've since committed fixes, but 
> just to be sure -- and so that you don't have to retry everything, 
> what version of dcache.c is listed in src/kernel/linux-2.6/CVS/Entries?
> -sam
>
>
> On Dec 10, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Juan Piernas Canovas wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> (Please, accept my apologies if this has been discussed before.)
>>
>> I have downloaded the latest version of PVFS2 from the CVS repository 
>> (today, at 2pm, Pacific Time). I have also set up a small file system 
>> (4 I/O nodes, one of them is also the metadata server) and mounted 
>> the file system on /pvfs2. After copying a few files and directories, 
>> I get the following errors:
>>
>> piernas at n23:~> ls /pvfs2
>> aminogen  asd  dscal  lost+found
>> piernas at n23:~> cd /pvfs2
>> piernas at n23:/pvfs2> ls
>> /bin/ls: .: Invalid argument              
>> <---------------------------------
>> piernas at n23:/pvfs2> cd dscal
>> piernas at n23:/pvfs2/dscal> ls
>> /bin/ls: .: Stale NFS file handle        
>> <----------------------------------
>> piernas at n23:/pvfs2/dscal> ls /pvfs2/dscal/
>> doubles.1M  perchunk.xml  rule.xml  src
>>
>> Note that the errors arise when I use a relative path. If I use an 
>> absolute path for ls, everything works smoothly.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>     Juan.
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