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Message-Id: <20081029175643.ad0f1dca.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:56:43 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: "Parag Warudkar" <parag.lkml@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: Stale NFS File Handle but !NFS
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:58:34 -0400
"Parag Warudkar" <parag.lkml@...il.com> wrote:
> Anyone got an idea why I am getting the below error with today's git
> while compiling the kernel?
>
> LD arch/x86/vdso/built-in.o
> scripts/Makefile.build:373: net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd: Stale NFS file handle
> make[2]: stat: net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd: Stale NFS file handle
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd'. Stop.
> make[1]: *** [net/netfilter] Error 2
> make: *** [net] Error 2
> parag@...ag-desktop:~/kernel-dev/linux-2.6-wk$ rm net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd
> rm: cannot remove `net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd': Stale NFS file handle
> parag@...ag-desktop:~/kernel-dev/linux-2.6-wk$ sudo rm
> net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd
>
> Even trying 'sudo rm -f' on that file gives the same error.
>
> I am not using NFS at all which makes this one sound weird!
>
Is this still happening?
If so, I'd be looking at that new `return ERR_PTR(-ESTALE)' in
d_obtain_alias().
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