John Rouillard wrote at about 20:13:15 +0000 on Thursday, October 30, 2008:
> 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.
True -- I changed it to 'hard' but am still encountering the
problem... FRUSTRATING...
It's really weird in that it seems to work the first time a directory
is read but after a directory has been read a few times, it starts
messing up. It's almost like the results are being stored in cache and
then the cache is corrupted.
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