NFS delegations don't expire after unmounting client
Alan Somers
asomers at freebsd.org
Thu Feb 11 19:18:15 UTC 2021
I have several Linux 5.9.15 clients mounting NFS 4.1 served from a FreeBSD
12.2-RELEASE server. Today, most of those clients' mounts hung, and their
dmesg displayed "nfs: server XXX not responding, still trying". But one
client kept running fine. nfsdumpstate on the server showed that that
client, and that one only, had 2 delegations. It also had 1 OpenOwner, 1
Open, and the CB flags set. It was the only client that had CB set. On
the theory that its delegation callbacks weren't working, I tried
unmounting all of its NFS shares. That worked, but to my surprise
nfsdumpstate showed no change! I could see that the lease time recorded in
/var/run/nfs-stablerestart was 120s, and I must've waited about 30m in all
before disabling delegations, unmounting everything, and returning to NFS
v3. So my questions are, what can cause a delegation to linger around long
after it should've expired, and what else can I do to debug this problem if
it recurs?
-Alan
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