What client-level are you running?

We have a lot of nfs-problems at our site, but the problems with stale
mounts





On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Gary Grider wrote:

> I have a Solaris machine that is trying to back up the / filesystem
> which is a local file system.  It has a directory /xxx and
> there was an NFS mounted file system mounted on /xxx, but taht
> mount has become stale.  I am not backing up the /xxx nfs mounted
> file system, but I do want to back up / .
> When I do an incremental on / I get the ANS401E Stale NFS handle problem
> error when it goes by /xxx.  I have tried to exclude /xxx in an exclude.dir
> statement, but it still fails with that error.  Is there any way
> to get the client to go by this directory short of booting the client
> to clean up the stale nfs mount.
>
> Thanks
> Gary
>