[Gluster-users] cannot remove empty directory on gluster file system

[Mauro Tridici]

Hi Strahil,

unfortunately, no process is holding file or directory.
Do you know if some other community user could help me?

Thank you,
Mauro



> On 25 Mar 2020, at 21:08, Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> You can also check if there is a process holding a file that was deleted there:
> lsof /tier2/OPA/archive/GOFS/RECOVERY20190416/GlobNative/20190505
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> If it's not that one , I'm out of ideas :)
> 
> It's not recommended to delete it from the bricks , so avoid that if possible.
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> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov
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> В сряда, 25 март 2020 г., 21:12:58 Гринуич+2, Mauro Tridici <mauro.tridici at cmcc.it> написа: 
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> Hi Sttrahil,
> 
> thank you for your answer.
> Directory is empty and no immutable bit has been assigned to it.
> 
> [athena-login2][/tier2/OPA/archive/GOFS/RECOVERY20190416/GlobNative/20190505]> ls -la
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 das oclab_prod 4096 Mar 25 10:02 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 das oclab_prod 4096 Mar 25 10:02 ..
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> Any other idea related this issue?
> Many thanks,
> Mauro
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>> On 25 Mar 2020, at 18:32, Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> On March 25, 2020 3:32:59 PM GMT+02:00, Mauro Tridici <mauro.tridici at cmcc.it> wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>> 
>>> some users tht use regularly our gluster file system are experiencing a
>>> strange error during attempting to remove a empty directory.
>>> All bricks are up and running, no perticular error has been detected,
>>> but they are not able to remove it successfully.
>>> 
>>> This is the error they are receiving:
>>> 
>>> [athena-login2][/tier2/OPA/archive/GOFS]> rm -rf RECOVERY20190416/
>>> rm: cannot remove `RECOVERY20190416/GlobNative/20190505': Directory not
>>> empty
>>> 
>>> I tried to delete this directory from root user without success.
>>> Do you have some suggestions to solve this issue?
>>> 
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Mauro
>> 
>> What do you have in 'RECOVERY20190416/GlobNative/20190505' ?
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>> Maybe you got an immutable bit (chattr +i) on any file/folder  ?
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>> Best Regards,
>> Sttrahil Nikolov
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