Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 11:24:03 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jay <jay@oneway.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: .nfs files, what causes them and why do they hang around? Message-ID: <199809031124.LAA00428@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Sep 1998 12:34:15 -0400." <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809031225350.16712-100000@tidal.oneway.com>
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> > Good Afternoon, > > I have a fairly high-traffic NFS server running FreeBSD 2.2.6 > using nfsv3 to all FreeBSD 2.2.6 clients. One of the things that I notice > on it is that there are hundreds of .nfsA3d7a4.4 files hanging around. I > know that these are some type of nfs temporary files, and that they are > normally supposed to be removed, but I have some on there from August > 17th. I have removed them without problem before, but I am curious as to > what is causing them, and wondering if it is related to another problem we > are having. They're files that have been unlinked but not closed on the client; because NFS is stateless they can't be unlinked on the server (there's no indication that the client has the file open, because there's no state...). You'll normally get these if the client goes down unexpectedly. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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