NFS and Mac OS X Server

[Lance Westerhoff]

Hi All-

The plot thickens!  So once I successfully delete the directory by  
logging into the osx_server, anything further done to this now-non- 
existent directory (such as trying to create a file/directory with  
the same name) yields a "Stale NFS" or "File exists" error.  So from  
the beginning:

[user at rh_client ~]$ rm -rf directory/
rm: cannot remove directory `directory/': Device or resource busy
osx_server:~ user$ rm -rf directory/
[user at rh_client ~]$ touch directory
touch: setting times of `directory': Stale NFS file handle
[user at rh_client ~]$ mkdir directory
mkdir: cannot create directory `directory': File exists

Thanks!

-Lance

On Sep 14, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Lance Westerhoff wrote:

> Hi All-
>
> So this is an annoying problem and I'm not sure how to address it.
>
> I have a Mac OS X Server 10.4 box serving as my home directory  
> server to a bunch of clean-install "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client  
> release 5 (Tikanga)" clients. Using nfs, all of my users are  
> mounted back to the OS X box for the home directories.  Most of the  
> time, all is well. But occasionally, I have strange errors.  Here  
> is one that is particularly annoying.  While sitting on one of the  
> clients and I try to delete a directory....I receive the following  
> error.  When I login to the server, I can delete the directory with  
> no problem.  What's going on?  Thanks!
>
> [user at rh_client ~]$ rm -rf directory/
> rm: cannot remove directory `directory/': Device or resource busy
> osx_server:~ user$ rm -rf directory/
>
> SUCCESS!
>
> Currently, the directories are statically mounted on the rh_client  
> box using the following fstab:
>
> [user at rh_client ~]$ grep osx_server  /etc/fstab
> osx_server:/Users             /Network/Servers/osx_server/Users    
> nfs     defaults        0 0
>
> Thank you for any insights you can provide!
>
> -Lance
>
>