Ian Collins wrote:
> I have a build 62 system with a zone that NFS mounts an ZFS filesystem.
>
>>From the zone, I keep seeing issues with .nfsXXXX files remaining in
> otherwise empty directories preventing their deletion. The files appear
> to be immediately replaced when they are deleted.
>
> Is this an NFS or a ZFS issue?
That is how NFS deals with files that are unlinked while open. In a local
file system, unlinked while open files will simply not be deleted until the
close. For remote file systems, like NFS, you have to remove the file from
the namespace, but not remove the file's content. The client will do this
by creating .nfs???? files. A more detailed explanation is at:
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/
-- richard
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