Hi, We have an unusual problem with 'invisible' and disappearing files: some files are not visible in a directory using 'find' or 'ls' on the directory, yet they are visible using tools such as 'debugfs' or if you know the actual name of the file, you can use 'ls' to list it explicitly.
For instance, in the directory: /home/stampy/queues/sendsyphonemailqstore/q_dispatch you can ls -la it, and find no files: stampy:~# ls -la /home/stampy/queues/sendsyphonemailqstore/q_dispatch total 8 drwxr-sr-x 2 louisb staff 4096 Jun 25 11:45 . drwxr-sr-x 7 louisb staff 4096 Jan 4 14:05 .. Yet when you 'ls' the files directly (which we find from the log of a daemon that places them there), they are there: stampy:~# ls -la /home/stampy/queues/sendsyphonemailqstore/q_dispatch/1088004896841 -rw-r--r-- 1 louisb staff 1 Jun 24 01:34 /home/stampy/queues/sendsyphonemailqstore/q_dispatch/1088004896841 stampy:~# This is occuring on two machines running Debian Woody, 2.4.25 and 2.4.18 kernels. The filesystems have had fsck run on them, and the systems are not able to clean the /tmp directory because of these 'missing' files Other info: ext2 filesystems libc-2.2.5.so gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease) On both machines, the problems are showing up in the /tmp/CGI_Cache directory. The filesystems have not run out of inodes Any ideas what could cause this? It has happened on a 3rd machine now too. One of the machines uses hardware scsi RAID and the other two are using IDE (different chipsets, one VIA, the other AMD) Thanks for any pointers, Campbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
