When we've seen similar error messages on the SGI client, it has
often been a symptom of an OS-level problem. One simple test that
you can try is to issue a 'df' command, and see if that returns
with no errors. If 'df' has an error, then you can tell that
your ADSM error is only a propagation of the lower level problem.
A stale NFS handle generally comes when ADSM is attempting to
determine the list of all available filesystems on the machine,
and 'df' has to make a similar call.

 -- Tom

On Tue, 4 May 1999, Geetam Van Der Dussen wrote:

>Sean
>
>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.
>
>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????
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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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