Stale File Handles

AARRRGGHH!!!

Ok, so I queried the list about this a year ago (early May '99) but am dealing with it again. Guy Harris was kind enough to help, and if you're out there I could use your help again.

We had a power outage a week ago that shut down all our desktop systems - but not our filers and servers. Now, we have at random times during the day a large majority of systems griping :

NFS write error on host hardrock: Stale NFS file handle. (file handle: 2ae0500 51356400 20000000 aa5c8 54417810 5c140000 2ae0500 51356400)

They all have the same File handle, and the toaster has no error messages in its etc/messages files. I tried rebooting a few systems, but they still generate these error messages. I was trying to figure out what file it is by extracting an INODE number, but what Guy said before doesn't match :

In 5.0, we had to add a file system ID; file handles in 5.0 and later consist of:

   32-bit file ID for mount point
   32-bit generation count for mount point
   8-bit snapshot ID in which file resides
   8-bit unused byte
   32-bit file ID for file
   32-bit generation count for file
   32-bit volume ID for file
   32-bit file ID for export point
   32-bit combined snapshot ID and generation number for export 

point; the upper 8 bits of that 32-bit quantity are the snapshot ID and the lower 24 bits are the generation number.

The file's file ID (but not the mount point's or export point's file ID) is *big-endian*;

So, any ideas as to how to figure this out?

Thanks!

----------- Jay Orr Systems Administrator Fujitsu Nexion Inc. St. Louis, MO