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Big XFS filesystem NFS export mount fails with stale nfs handle

If you have big XFS filesystem (with lot of files) and you use inode64 mount option, exporting this file system using NFS may fail when mouting this export on client:

Stale NFS file handle

This error is strange and confusing. Workaround is to specify fsid in /etc/exports for this filesystem.

For more information check this nice blog article https://hpc.uni.lu/blog/2014/xfs-and-inode64/

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