From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 26 19:39:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA10310 for current-outgoing; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 19:39:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [206.246.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA10304 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 19:39:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by earth.mat.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA29853; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 22:39:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 21:38:56 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: Eivind Eklund cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Directories disappearing? In-Reply-To: <199710270219.DAA00414@bitbox.follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > Starting approx a week ago, directories have started to disappear from > my -current system. It only seem to affect directories in which files > are added/removed (both operations have had directories disappearing > under my feet). > > Anybody else that are having the same problem? Any suspect changes? > I've not had enough disk activity for the files in the directories to > go away through proper unlinks - I've had a a directory with 3000 > files disappear with nary a sound from the disk. > > fsck is not reporting any problems with the disk this has happened on. Tell more. Are you running SMP? Have you looked into your archive, are the files really gone, or unhooked from cvs? I'm suddenly having problems with my mailer locking up on sending a message, I suspect it has to do with locking, and it's not common enough for it to be reproducible yet. I don't know ... it sounds like we need more data. > > Eivind. > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------