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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
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In-reply-to: Chuck Robey's message of Sun, 26 Oct 1997 21:38:56 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Directories disappearing?
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> 
> 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?

Most of them weren't CVS-related.

I'm not running SMP; single processor PPro 200 with 64 MB RAM, 3
SCSI-disks on an Adaptec 2940.  128MB swap (yes, too little - old
system). This was on an UFS with noatime, but NOT async.

See my mail to PHK for other details of exactly what kind of
directories that disappeared.

Eivind.