> I have seen this error message before, on an HP-UX client, backup up only
> local file systems. At the time we had severe perfomance problems on the
> machine. It went away when the machine was running 'normal' again. I
> believe it is a very confusion error message, triggered by a time-out.

Yes, and I believe there are two workarounds for these.  One is to remove
the dsmstat program, and the other is toincrease the value of NFSTIMEout
in, I think, dsm.opt (NFSTimeout nnn ; where nnn=number of seconds).

I do not think the NFStimeout option is documented, so perhaps someone
from IBM can verify this?


>
> Regards
>      Geetam
>
>
> > Date:    Mon, 3 May 1999 14:04:42 -0700
> > From:    Sean Stecker <Stecker.Sean AT ORBITAL-LSG DOT COM>
> > Subject: Stale NFS handle on LOCAL drive????
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
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> >
>
>
> > All,
> >
> > We have local drives on a Sun server configured as a RAID 5 Meta device.
> > We receive the message "stale NFS handler" when trying to back up one of
> > this drive.  And yes, the local drives are included in the domain
> > statement.  Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of this annoying
> > message that gives this session a failure?  Thanks for the help.
> >
> > Sean M. Stecker
> >
>
>
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