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Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:07:31 +0100 |
Vincent Lefevre <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've attached the log. Here are the contents of the archive:
Your log shows that rm succeeds in removing each file (all unlink syscalls
succeed), yet the directory is not empty, so it rewinds it and goes
through again -- and all names are still there. The _second_ unlink
attempt fails with ENOENT, because now NFS is reporting that it's gone:
access("test/config.h.in", W_OK) = 0
unlink("/proc/self/fd/4/config.h.in") = 0
...
access("test/config.h.in", W_OK) = -1 ESTALE (Stale NFS file handle)
unlink("/proc/self/fd/4/config.h.in") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
But the solution for ignoring diagnostics about nonexistent
files is simply to use rm's -f option.
> courge:~> strace -o test.log rm -r test
> rm: cannot remove `test/config.h.in': No such file or directory
Does using -f solve your problem?
- rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Paul Eggert, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/05
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Paul Eggert, 2007/03/06
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/06
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/06
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/06
- Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/03/06