Dear Group; I'm running into a situation with the Netapp filer 740. I have a directory on the netapp called /www/C_name , and this directory gets mounted on two webservers. I've been running into a problem where the webserver randomly denies acess to some files, returning a "Forbidden" message. The strange thing is the files for which access is denied have the right permissions: I looked through the error log file and noticed that foreach of the files whose access had been denied, the webserver logged a message saying: (151)Stale NFS file handle: access to /www/C_name/file_name failed. But when the webbrowser reloads the requested file a couple of times, the file is eventually displayed.
I also looked through the system log files, and there was no log of any kind mentioning a stale nfs file handle. I mean that the nfs file system was/is intact, but some how, the webserver could not access the file.
What I'm wondering about: Is there a situation that would cause the netapp filer to deny access to the webserver machines for a few miliseconds, thus coincidentally causing the webserver not to serve the requested file? What would lead to a situation like this?
Any pointers/suggestions/comments/help very much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Robert Johannes