[vox-tech] stale NFS file (was: binary equivalence of two directories)

Josh Parsons jbparsons at ucdavis.edu
Thu Mar 17 08:54:49 PST 2005


> Any file that diff reported "Stale NFS file handle", I can cat, edit,
> play,...
> I don't even know how to diagnose the cause.

I've no idea either what's wrong, but if I were you, I'd start by seeing
what syscall diff is using (and cat etc. aren't) that provokes the
error.  Try running your diff invocation under strace.

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