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

Sam Lang slang at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Dec 11 12:19:49 EST 2007


Yeah, that was broken for a few hours.  If you cvs update you'll get  
the fix.
-sam

On Dec 11, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Juan Piernas Canovas wrote:

> 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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