"Stale file handle" error

[Predrag Punosevac]

To what machine did you ssh? That computing nodes needs to be rebooted. You
have no business using shell gateways as your workstation is your personal
shell gateway so that part of your report is irrelevant. I also don't mount
data and project on shell gateways.

Predrag

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 12:30 PM Emma Erickson <eerickso at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Oh I phrased that poorly, I was using ssh from my desktop to access
> zfsauton.
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 12:25 PM Predrag Punosevac <
> predragp at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> This will require very invasive action. I need to do a bit of planning
>> before I pull the trigger on this. Are you sure you see this on your
>> desktop. IIRC zfsauton is not mounted on you personal workstation. You can
>> always try to reboot it.
>>
>> Predrag
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 12:21 PM Emma Erickson <eerickso at andrew.cmu.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Predrag,
>>>
>>> Thank you for getting back so quickly. I first encountered the issue on
>>> my lab desktop, but receive the same errors regardless of whether I try
>>> upload, bash, or lop2.
>>> [image: image.png]
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Emma
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 12:03 PM Predrag Punosevac <
>>> predragp at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Which computer are you using? The stale file handles is NFS client
>>>> problem which can be only fix by rebooting the host. I might need to reboot
>>>> file server hosting project and data folders as well but that will not fix
>>>> the client side.. I was unable the other day to clear stale ZFS snapshots
>>>> from the same server. In spite of  the fact that the file server was
>>>> trashed in June by a fellow grad student I take a full responsibility for
>>>> being a fool and allowing lab members to create and excessively use public
>>>> directory. Will not happen in the future.
>>>>
>>>> I did apply multiple bandaids but it appears that more invasive
>>>> procedure will be necessary to fix the fallout. Thanks for you report.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Predrag
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 11:50 AM Emma Erickson <eerickso at andrew.cmu.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Predrag,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to access some data from the '/zfsauton/data' folder.
>>>>> Though it shows up when I list directories in zfsauton, I get a "stale file
>>>>> handle" error when trying to access its contents. Rachel had the same
>>>>> issue. Is there any way to access the files in this folder?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>> Emma
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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