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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!uunet!mcsun!goya!tornasol!jgb From: jgb@inf.uc3m.es Subject: Re: NFS mounted can cause file system inconsistencies... Message-ID: <CAGJxs.5LJ@inf.uc3m.es> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 10:03:28 GMT References: <226me2$ec1@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> Organization: Departamento de Ingenieria - Universidad Carlos III - Madrid (Spain) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Lines: 25 Dave Burgess (burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil) wrote: ... > When I mount another system (sun-lamp, wuarchive, the Sun down the hall) > and do anything that creates a lot of files (like innd news files or a > really big mget under FTP) sometimes, just sometimes, my file system > will end up with files with ?--------- as their file mode in an "ls -al" > and unreferenced files, and other relatively critical stuff. Sometimes, > the problem will go away (i.e. I sync the system and shutdown and the > files are all OK again). Other times, the only way to get rid of the > files is to shutdown and "fsck -y". Does this sound like a controller > cache problem (I can't remember if the controller cache is turned on or > not). Remember, this is only a problem when I have an NFS mounted. > Anyone have any idea what might be the problem? I don't know if this is a related problem, but when I mount a NFS partition from a server running Solaris 2.x, all the file names end with a '?'. I have NetBSD 0.8, and I'm mounting file systems from HP/UX and Ultrix without problems... I don't know if this is a bug in Solaris or in NetBSD... Jesus. jgb@inf.uc3m.es