Environment
Reload
Situation
Reload cannot connect to the PO and the error "mount(2): Stale NFS file handle" appears in the logs.
Resolution
This can happen when the NFS client is rebooted before the NFS server with invalid file handles being left in memory.
The mounts need to be refreshed on the source (GW) server. This can be resolved by running:
exportfs -f
and/or
umount -lf
Additional Information
This article was originally published in the GWAVA knowledgebase as article ID 2817.