[Gluster-devel] rm -rf sometimes failing in 2.0.0rc1
Anand Avati
avati at zresearch.com
Tue Feb 10 14:12:28 UTC 2009
>> rm -rf /mnt/u1
>> rm: cannot remove directory `/mnt/u1/share/doc': Directory not empty
>> rm: cannot remove directory
>> `/mnt/u1/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-23-server/include/config': Directory not
>> empty
>>
>> I did similar commands on 7 other clients, and almost all of them failed to
>> delete share/doc (one succeeded). After the failure, ls of the directory
>> shows empty, but an ls of the individual bricks shows that there are still
>> many subdirectories and some files still present.
>>
>> The two directories that gave problems have a higher than typical number of
>> entries.
Can you give us some more details about how the data was populated?
was it rsync'ed in? was it used for a kernel compile? were some nodes
down while any operation was performed on it?
Thanks,
Avati
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