Re: UPDATE: VERY URGENT: "cp -a" creates mysteriously "hidden" files?!

["Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 16:08:24 +0100 (CET), Seth Mos wrote:

>It's possible you might had checked out a CVS tree just in between two
>fixes where it was broken.

Ok, I've now built a new kernel based upon today's CVS source.

Guess what? The problem's still there, but it seems that things have become 
somewhat better. I only received THREE error messages like the following:

    ls: ./path/to/some/file: No such file or directory

when invoking "ls -laRh" in the directory where the RAID is mounted. With 
previous kernels I would typically receive dozens of errors (there are some 
543,000 files on the respective filesystem.)

Based upon this findings I think we can for sure rule out a broken kernel 
release. It must be a systematic bug in the XFS(?) code that hasn't been fixed 
so far. But how can we find the location?!

Thanks,

Ralf


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