nfs fun

[me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)]

On 10/30/2009 06:57 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Matthew Gillen wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to map an NFS file-handle to a filename on the
>> NFS server?
> 
> This was discussed on the BBLISA list back in May. See:
> 
> http://www.bblisa.org/pipermail/bblisa/2009-May/002209.html
>   The summary of responses was, in effect:  there is no way to do it on
>   a general Linux system.
> 
>   Several people pointed out places where documentation (e.g. lsof)
>   implies this should be doable, but experimentally it works for NFS
>   clients but not servers.
> 
> See other messages in the thread, such as:
> http://www.bblisa.org/pipermail/bblisa/2009-May/002200.html
> 
> in case you have better luck with the suggested solutions than the OP had.

Yikes!  That sounds like more than I have a time-budget to look into.
My original problem was solved for the time being by bouncing the lockd on
the server.  That makes me think it might be more of a server-side problem...

Thanks,
Matt