Sounds like a sync issue to me.<br><br>Add "sync" and "no_wdelay" to /etc/exports and "actimeo=0" to the mount command on the client side.<br><br>-Josh More<br><br>(Yeah, I'm new here... just moved to the cities.)<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Wayne Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wdtj@yahoo.com">wdtj@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Here's a mystery for all you NFS guru's out there.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div>
<span>I have a RHEL zLinux system that mounts an NFS file system on an RHEL x64 system (PC disk space is much cheaper than mainframe). I have a build process that checks out thousands of files onto this one NFS file system. When the build process starts, I do a rm -rf of the whole directory to clean it out for the build before doing the checkout. Unfortunatly I get an error in the middle of the rm -rf. I get the error:</span></div>
<div><br><span></span></div><div><span>rm -r build/HEAD<br>rm: cannot remove directory `build/HEAD/qa/testcapi/scripts': Directory not empty<br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>It appears that the rm did not remove some of the files in this directory. I can
then remove them by hand, so it's not a permission issue, besides the permissions are 644 and I'm the owner. I've rebooted and fscked everything involved and </span><span>still have the problem.</span></div>
<div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Is there some sort of caching or locking issue with NFS that prevents these files from getting marked deleted before the rm command does it's rmdir (which is generating the error)? <br>
</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>To get around this, I've doubled up the rm -rf command and this seems to work. The question I am having is why this is failing? <br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div>
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