What causes stale NFS file handles?

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Issue

  • Clients mounting NFS filesystems report stale file handles
  • What are some causes of stale file handles and how can they be prevented?
  • I am seeing application logs stating read or write operations on an NFS file, or operations on an NFS directory, complete with errno = 116 (ESTALE)
  • Change the file id size from 64-bits to 32-bits in NFS Server, there is 'stale file handle' error and below messages in /var/log/messages
kernel: NFS: server lhub.nas error: fileid changed
kernel: fsid 0:13: expected fileid 0x1015734f5, got 0x15734f5

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) all versions
  • NFS (Network File System) version 3 and 4

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