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Re: Shadows, or two...

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Subject: Re: Shadows, or two...
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 16:11:32 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from "Orn E. Hansen" <oe.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> of "Mon, 09 Jul 2001 22:57:00 +0200." <01070922570000.03403@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>   Here are two issues, I've noticed on use of XFS 1.0.1-PR3, kernel 2.4.5 
> (vanilla + XFS patch).
> 
>   1.  Nightly cron-job, results in libGLcore file, to be unusable for some 
> reason.  Reboot fixes the problem... no re-occurance have occured, but I'm on
>  
> a watchout for it.

What do you have in the cron jobs - are you running xfs_fsr? I suppose it 
could have defragmented the file from underneath an mmap....

> 
>   2.  A program makes a backup copy of a file, then somewhere in the process 
> it dies unexpectedly (Program in question cups, file in question 
> printers.conf.0 file.  Later, viewing the file by 'vdir printers.conf.0' 
> shows the file, and everything appears ok.  But, 'rm printers.conf.0', says 
> the file is non consistant, same applies to 'mv' (unlink).  An hour or two 
> later, I remove the file with 'rm' and it works ok.

Can you expand on the 'file is non consistant' message, is this printed by the
rm command?

Steve


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