Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
turned out that fsck -f /dev/drbd1 cleaned it right up (found an unused inode, deleted it, cleaned up some tables) weird Miles Fidelman wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have a really weird problem that I hope someone can help with. > > The file /var/log/boot (i.e., my boot log file) can't be read or > removed - pretty much every operation gives the error "Stale NFS File > handle." > > The thing is, it's not on an NFS volume (I don't have any NFS volumes > mounted). Instead, it's on a DRBD device, that in turn is on an LVM > volume, on top of a RAID array. > > Here's what I've tried to remedy the situation: > > 1. it's on the root volume for a Xen domU > -- stopped and started NFS on the domU > -- I've rebooted the domU > > 2. I shut down the domU and mounted the volume in dom0 > -- it still shows as "Stale NFS file handle" > -- it still can't be deleted > > 3. unmounted the volume, took the DRBD device, brought the DRBD device > back up, mounted it > -- still shows as "Stale NFS file handle" > -- still can't delete it > > Any thoughts on what's going on, or at least on how to delete the > file. I'm trying to diagnose something else, and I'd sure like boot > logging back! > > Thanks, > > Miles Fidelman > > > > -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra