Need Help to Fix Stale NFS File Handle

[Matt Graham]

From: Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
> mark at hammerhead:~$ mount
> /dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> /dev/hdb1 on /backups type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
[proc/sys/usb/udev/devpts pseudo-fses]

rpc_pipefs is used by NFS clients and servers.  However, on a relatively
normal NFS client here, the only thing that's using that pseudo-fs is
rpc.idmapd, which is useful in some cases but probably not relevant.

> binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc

The binfmt_misc pseudo-fs is there for OS execution of miscellaneous binaries.
 For example, you could associate .exe files with wine, and just run those
with "solitaire.exe" instead of "wine solitaire.exe".  It's controlled by the
binfmt_misc kernel module, and probably has a config file somewhere.

> All the pictures were uploaded from CD to /backups/gallery3/var and
> displayed correctly for several months.

> Then, the disk controller died, I added a new one, and it all seemed
> to be working except for a couple of the images, which cannot be
> accessed. Presumably due to the NFS stale file handle. Gallery does
> not use NFS. I don't use NFS on my network.

A few days ago, I asked for the output from "ps auxw | grep nfs" and "dmesg |
grep -i nfs".  Find out what (if anything) is running on this machine that's
related to NFS.  Also, do "dmesg | more" and eyeball-grep the results for
anything weird-looking.

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