Why does RHEL6 NFS clients reports more stale file handles (-ESTALE) when compared to previous versions?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Users see more reports of stale file handles on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 when compared to previous versions.
  • ESTALE errors seen on RHEL 6 for files which have been recreated recently on other nodes. Similar issue is described at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678544

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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