I was getting this too. It turned out that it was because there was a
defined NFS mount point in /etc/filesystems but the remote filesystem no
longer existed - it had been made local to improve access time. At machine
start the NFS mounter would try to mount the remote filesystem, fail, and
go on. Eliminating the unnecessary stanza in the /etc/filesystems fixed it.




"V.R. Gunuganti (Venkat)" <vrgais AT CAT DOT COM> on 11/03/98 04:31:30 PM

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To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
cc:
Subject:  stale NFS handle




I am running 3.1.10.5 client and 3.1.1.5 server, both on AIX.

For an daily incremental backup we are getting errors of "stale NFS
handle",
on the client, eventhough the filesystem is a local filesystem to client.

dsmerror.log has these lines:


11/02/98 19:10:52 PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=171 from fioGetDirEntries:
\
        /usr/local/prod/test  /test1/pb/yyy/xxxx
11/02/98 19:10:52 ANS4010E Error processing '/usr/local/prod/test': \
        stale NFS handle

Similar errors occur for another 5 filesystems which are local to the
client.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time.

Venkat