[mirror-admin] "file has vanished" again

[Mike McGrath]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> said:
> > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> > > Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) wrote on 15 October 2009 12:56:
> > >  >I'm seeing more of the rsync "file has vanished" messages again, and
> > >  >they seem to persist for hours.  For example, today I'm seeing:
> > >  >
> > >  >receiving file list ... file has vanished: "/linux/development/source/SRPMS/anaconda-12.37-1.fc12.src.rpm" (in fedora-enchilada)
> > >
> > > Same here.
> >
> > Where are you syncing from and what file are seeing the same file vanish
> > every time or a different one?
>
> Syncing from download3.fedora.redhat.com (also seen in a test on
> download1).
>
> Yesterday, I saw the same anaconda-12.37-1.fc12.src.rpm "vanished" for
> hours.  Eventually it came through.  I saw the first "vanished" message
> at about 07:30 CDT and again several times up through 18:00 CDT.
>
> It appears that this was a file to be deleted yesterday (it was deleted
> here in a run that started at 23:00 CDT), so maybe the problem is on the
> delete side of syncing (deleting from the filesystem but not the
> metadata?).
>

K, I have a hunch I know what this is.  These shares are all on nfs and we
have a fairly high actimeo set.  I'll see about tuning this value.

	-Mike

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