Stale NFS file handle

This article was first written in December 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/318).
If you get this message [1] on a NFS client while trying to access a file or directory on a NFS server, chances are you can fix it by killing the processes that try to access it. Chances are that you don't know which processes may be involved.