[Gluster-users] stale file handle on gluster NFS client when trying to remove a directory

[Nithya Balachandran]

An ESTALE error usually means the gfid could not be found. Does repeating
the "rm -rf" delete the directory?

Regards,
Nithya

On 3 January 2018 at 12:16, Jeevan Patnaik <g1patnaik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I haven't found any root cause or workaround for this yet. Can any one
> help me in underatanding the issue?
>
> Regards,
> Jeevan.
>
> On Dec 21, 2017 8:20 PM, "Jeevan Patnaik" <g1patnaik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> After running rm -rf on a directory, the files under it got deleted, but
>> the directory was not deleted and was showing stale file handle error.
>> After 18 minutes, I'm able to delete the directory. So could anyone help me
>> in knowing what could have happened or when in general I get such errors.
>>
>>
>> The following is NFS log:
>>
>>
>> [2017-12-21 13:56:01.592256] I [MSGID: 108019]
>> [afr-transaction.c:1903:afr_post_blocking_entrylk_cbk]
>> 0-g_sitework2-replicate-5: Blocking entrylks failed.
>>
>> [2017-12-21 13:56:01.594350] W [MSGID: 108019]
>> [afr-lk-common.c:1064:afr_log_entry_locks_failure]
>> 0-g_sitework2-replicate-4: Unable to obtain sufficient blocking entry locks
>> on at least one child while attempting RMDIR on
>> {pgfid:23558c59-87e5-4e90-a610-8a47ec08b27c, name:csrc}.
>>
>> [2017-12-21 13:56:01.594648] I [MSGID: 108019]
>> [afr-transaction.c:1903:afr_post_blocking_entrylk_cbk]
>> 0-g_sitework2-replicate-4: Blocking entrylks failed.
>>
>> [2017-12-21 13:56:01.594790] W [MSGID: 112032]
>> [nfs3.c:3713:nfs3svc_rmdir_cbk] 0-nfs: df521f4d:
>> <gfid:23558c59-87e5-4e90-a610-8a47ec08b27c>/csrc => -1 (Stale file
>> handle) [Stale file handle]
>>
>> [2017-12-21 13:56:01.594816] W [MSGID: 112199]
>> [nfs3-helpers.c:3414:nfs3_log_common_res] 0-nfs-nfsv3:
>> <gfid:23558c59-87e5-4e90-a610-8a47ec08b27c>/csrc => (XID: df521f4d,
>> RMDIR: NFS: 70(Invalid file handle), POSIX: 116(Stale file handle))
>>
>> [2017-12-21 13:56:01.590522] W [MSGID: 108019]
>> [afr-lk-common.c:1064:afr_log_entry_locks_failure]
>> 0-g_sitework2-replicate-2: Unable to obtain sufficient blocking entry locks
>> on at least one child while attempting RMDIR on
>> {pgfid:23558c59-87e5-4e90-a610-8a47ec08b27c, name:csrc}.
>>
>> [2017-12-21 13:56:01.590569] W [MSGID: 108019]
>> [afr-lk-common.c:1064:afr_log_entry_locks_failure]
>> 0-g_sitework2-replicate-1: Unable to obtain sufficient blocking entry locks
>> on at least one child while attempting RMDIR on
>> {pgfid:23558c59-87e5-4e90-a610-8a47ec08b27c, name:csrc}.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jeevan.
>>
>
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