From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 14:43:00 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1924ED8 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:43:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bgold@simons-rock.edu) Received: from hedwig.simons-rock.edu (hedwig.simons-rock.edu [208.81.88.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0BD18FC08 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from behemoth (behemoth.simons-rock.edu [10.30.2.44]) by hedwig.simons-rock.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E4A163C for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:36:33 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian Gold" To: Subject: odd phantom directory Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:36:33 -0500 Message-ID: <06e901cdc407$c69ee650$53dcb2f0$@simons-rock.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0 Thread-Index: Ac3EA/x0lcsMdEXPQfyTKPk6/2Tjsw== Content-Language: en-us Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:43:01 -0000 Hi all, I ran into a rather odd issue this morning with my FreeBSD 9.0-Release system running ZFS v28. This system serves as an RSYNC host which all of our other systems back up to each night. Last night, I started getting the following error: file has vanished: "/backup/ldap1/etc/pki" Now, usually when I get a file has vanished error during an RSYNC run, it indicates that the source file/directory on the system that is sending the rsync backup has been deleted or moved before rsync got a chance to actually send it. That doesn't appear to be the case here. "/backup/ldap1/etc/pki" is the destination directory on my Freebsd/ZFS server. I take a look in "/backup/ldap1/etc" on my Freebsd server and the "pki" subdirectory is no longer listed. Ok, so I run "mkdir /backup/ldap1/etc/pki" and get the following error: "mkdir: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: File exists". Odd Just to double check, I run "ls -la /backup/ldap1/etc/pki" and get the following: "ls: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: No such file or directory" Alright, how about a simple touch? "touch: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: No such file or directory" Fine. Maybe there is something funky about the "/backup/ldap1/etc" directory that is preventing me from doing any of this. "mkdir /backup/ldap1/etc/pki2". That works just fine. What the heck? Looking at the output of my daily security run, I see the following: Checking setuid files and devices: find: /backup/ldap1/etc/fonts/conf.avail: No such file or directory find: /backup/ldap1/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf: No such file or directory find: /backup/ldap1/etc/pki: No such file or directory So, it looks like there are a few files/directories in /backup/ldap1/etc that were affected. Looking through dmesg and /var/log/messages, I don't see anything out of the ordinary. I'm running a zpool scrub now just to be on the safe side, but I haven't seen any checksum or other errors so far. Any thoughts as to what might be causing this?