>Number:         9653
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Digital UNIX NFS servers report stale file handle problems from NetBSD clients
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 21 16:39:00 2000
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mark Davies
>Organization:
Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
>Release:        2000/02/18
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD city-art.mcs.vuw.ac.nz 1.4S NetBSD 1.4S (MCS_WORKSTATION) #2: Thu Mar 16 09:07:41 NZDT 2000 root@turakirae.mcs.vuw.ac.nz:/src/work/X/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/MCS_WORKSTATION i386


>Description:
	We have a number of NetBSD-current workstations that mount users home
	directories off Alphas running Digital UNIX 4.0E.  The syslog's on the
	Alpha boxes quite often have entries like the following:

Mar 22 12:18:54 circa.mcs.vuw.ac.nz vmunix:  RFS3_COMMIT, client address = 130.195.5.99, errno 22
Mar 22 12:20:32 mid-city.mcs.vuw.ac.nz vmunix: NFS server: stale file handle fs(8,1024) file 28572 gen 953004928
Mar 22 12:20:32 mid-city.mcs.vuw.ac.nz vmunix:  RFS3_COMMIT, client address = 130.195.6.117, errno 22
Mar 22 12:22:06 majestic.mcs.vuw.ac.nz vmunix: NFS server: stale file handle fs(8,2055) file 196679 gen 952401980
Mar 22 12:22:06 majestic.mcs.vuw.ac.nz vmunix:  RFS3_COMMIT, client address = 130.195.6.69, errno 22
Mar 22 12:26:02 greta-pt.mcs.vuw.ac.nz vmunix: NFS server: stale file handle fs(8,1024) file 119764 gen 953682960
Mar 22 12:26:02 greta-pt.mcs.vuw.ac.nz vmunix:  RFS3_COMMIT, client address = 130.195.6.35, errno 22
Mar 22 12:26:24 bats.mcs.vuw.ac.nz vmunix: NFS server: stale file handle fs(8,36869) file 35790 gen 953891031
Mar 22 12:26:24 bats.mcs.vuw.ac.nz vmunix:  RFS3_GETATTR, client address = 130.195.5.104, errno 22

	The client address is always a NetBSD box.
	I haven't noticed any actual problems accessing files related to this
	but these messages are filling up my logs.  Is this a bug with
	NetBSD's NFS or with the Alphas?  How could I track it down?

	I'm running a current from mid Feb but the same behaviour was there
	with previous currents I've run.

>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:
	
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: