[vox-tech] Stale NFS (was Copying/ Moving Large number of files)

[ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon)]

Hi Guys,

Thank you very much for all the enlightening disscussion.

As per your suggestions I was getting ready to use rsync to copy my files from an 300 GB NFS partition to another 1 TB NSF partition and all the lights went out.  ??

The new 1TB partition became unreachable and reports:  -bash: cd: /export/home: Stale NFS file handle
The /etc/fstab appears to have the correct entries:

# NFS shares
master:/export/home     /export/home            nfs     defaults,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hde                /media/floppy1          auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdf                /media/cdrom            auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hda                /media/cdrom1           auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

But, the darn partition keeps "desapearing" (after a while) every time it is manually re-mounted.

At this point we have no clue whay it is behaving this way, the original 300 GB NFS partition never behave this way.
Does anybody has any suggestions on why the new NFS partition behaves this way or what to check?

As always, thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Alfredo Lopez



-----Original Message-----
From: vox-tech-bounces at lists.lugod.org [mailto:vox-tech-bounces at lists.lugod.org] On Behalf Of Troy Arnold
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 1:52 AM
To: lugod's technical discussion forum
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Copying/ Moving Large number of files

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:07:13PM -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> Troy Arnold wrote:
> >
> > mv would be fine because the file isn't unlinked from the source until it
> > has successfully been written to the destination.
>
> I strongly disagree, having had problems with mv and large numbers of files.
> It isn't that data gets lost... it is simply that sorting out the mess
> of directories and files in two different places if there is a problem
> is a headache.

yeah, I agree with your disagreement :)  mv is only fine if everything goes
well.

> > Still, I'd use rsync.  It has the advantage that it can resume if for some
> > reason the transfer gets interrupted.
> >
> > rsync -av dir1 /bla/bla/bla
>
> rsync -avr ?

-a is 'archive' mode.  It turns on a bunch of flags, including -r
(recursive)

rsync is the shiznit.

-t
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