I am using mount -t smbfs. A log entry is made in /var/log/samba/smbmount whenever I run the mount -t smbfs command, but no error or alert info is provided when things act up. I can't see any smb errors happening, but rsync for some reason is getting confused or getting the wrong info from the file system. Could a network glitch slow down or break the file tests without some kind of error being logged somewhere? I'm calling rsync with -vv. -vvv gives me so much info, I haven't make sense of it... The W2K share has 2000 directories and 74000 files. I run rsync every 10 min. Re-syncing normally takes about 1 min. My mirror script doesn't test if rsync is running already, but that would probably be advisable. Is there a way to determine if smbfs is not reading full directory lists? Is there an upper limit on directory entries or dir read time with smbfs? What about rsync limits? Thanks,
Rob Walls -----Original Message----- From: jw schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 5:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Deleted files On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 05:04:00PM -0700, Walls Rob W Contr 75 CS/SCBS wrote: > Thought my troubles were fixed, but files disappeared again and > reappeared after a few dozen rsync cycles. I am mapping a Win2K > directory to Linux with Samba. That mounted directory is then Rsynced > to another Linux box on a schedule (Linux to Linux, because I can't > run rsync on the windows machine). For some unknown reason, several > thousand files are periodically (after several days) deleted from the > remote Linux box. Running Rsync a few dozen times seems to get things > back to normal, but causes great stress to myself and my users. > I am using the delete option, but these files should not be deleted, because > they haven't changed. Files eventually get back in sync. I can't figure out > why they are deleted in the first place. > Any ideas on what to check? Firstly, smbfs on linux is related to samba but is not samba. By "mapping a Win2K directory to Linux with Samba" i assume you mean "mounting a smb/cifs share from a W2K server with smbfs on linux". Assuming that clarification is correct we can now procede. Given that this simply doesn't seem to be happenning with other filesystems i expect that either smbfs or the W2K server are intermittantly dropping entries as readdir is done. It may be there is a bug in smbfs or even in W2K but it may simply be that directory reading over smb cannot be done coherently if there are long delays between readdir() calls on largish directories. If this were happening with local filesystems i would suggest send_directory() be refactored (or do it myself) to reduce the time spent with a directory open. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember Cernan and Schmitt -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
