Re: Disappearing/Reappearing Files... (fwd)

1999-05-09 Thread John Polstra
Kirk McKusick wrote: > The changes that I added to soft updates two days ago only kick in > when the soft dependency memory limit is hit. This certainly should > not be happening at system startup, and on any machine with more > than 64Mb of memory, almost never. In my case it looks like your cha

Re: Disappearing/Reappearing Files... (fwd)

1999-05-09 Thread Kirk McKusick
From: Julian Elischer To: mckus...@mckusick.com Subject: Re: Disappearing/Reappearing Files... (fwd) FYI also some other people are commenting on odd behaviour where a created file doesn't show up for a while... almost as if the readdir() is returning the 'backed out' version of the dir

Re: Disappearing/Reappearing Files...

1999-05-08 Thread John Polstra
In article <199905082048.naa34...@vashon.polstra.com>, John Polstra wrote: > > I'm seeing something possibly related (possibly not) on an Alpha with > this morning's -current. First I was getting unaligned accesses and > core dumps from the "cp" in /etc/rc that updates the /etc/motd file. > (I

Re: Disappearing/Reappearing Files...

1999-05-08 Thread John Polstra
In article <19990507163249.a2...@k6n1.znh.org>, Zach Heilig wrote: > This is an example of what I just noticed: > > $ ls > aaa bbb ccc > $ cp aaa bbb > $ ls > aaa ccc > [ !!!, then a couple seconds later: ] > $ ls > aaa bbb ccc > > [a few (>5) minutes later in a different vt

Re: Disappearing/Reappearing Files...

1999-05-07 Thread Julian Elischer
is this reproducible for you? On Fri, 7 May 1999, Zach Heilig wrote: > This is an example of what I just noticed: > > $ ls > aaa bbb ccc > $ cp aaa bbb > $ ls > aaa ccc > [ !!!, then a couple seconds later: ] > $ ls > aaa bbb ccc > > [a few (>5) minutes later in a different

Disappearing/Reappearing Files...

1999-05-07 Thread Zach Heilig
This is an example of what I just noticed: $ ls aaa bbb ccc $ cp aaa bbb $ ls aaa ccc [ !!!, then a couple seconds later: ] $ ls aaa bbb ccc [a few (>5) minutes later in a different vty: ] $ cd problem_dir $ ls aaa ccc [ ugh.. ] $ ls aaa bbb ccc [this is a filesys