On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:04:26AM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Holger Parplies wrote at about 11:29:49 +0100 on Thursday, October 30, 2008:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-10-30 03:55:16 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] 
> Duplicate files in pool with same CHECKSUM and same CONTENTS]:
>  > > I have found a number of files in my pool that have the same checksum
>  > > (other than a trailing _0 or _1) and also the SAME CONTENT. Each copy
>  > > has a few links to it by the way.
>  > > 
>  > > Why is this happening? 
>  > 
>  > presumably creating a link sometimes fails, so BackupPC copies the file,
>  > assuming the hard link limit has been reached. I suspect problems with your
>  > NFS server, though not a "stale NFS file handle" in this case,
>  > since the file succeeds. Strange.
> 
> Yes - I am beginning to think that may be true. However as I mentioned
> in the other thread, the syslog on the nfs server is clean and the one
> on the client shows only about a dozen or so nfs timeouts over the
> past 12 hours which is the time period I am looking at now. Otherwise,
> I don't see any nfs errors.
> So if it is a nfs problem, something seems to be happening somewhat
> randomly and invisibly to the filesystem.

IIRC you are using a soft nfs mount option right? If you are writing
to an NFS share that is not recommended. Try changing it to a hard
mount and see if the problem goes away. I only used soft mounts on
read only filesystems.

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                                -- rouilj

John Rouillard
System Administrator
Renesys Corporation
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