Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] DID and Trash problems (was 1.4b2+OS8 / Trash Problem (even with asun patch))
From: Bob Smith, Hammett & Edison, Inc. (bsmith@h-e.com)
Date: Fri Jul 17 1998 - 18:33:15 EDT
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998, 13:50:33 DueTc wrote:
>HMMMMM.
>
>Could this be related to a problem that just showed up the last 2 days on
>one of my client networks? Everyone there works pretty much off the same
>shared volume, and once yesterday, and once the day before, a big folder of
>important files "placed itself" in the network trash folder of one of the
>machines. A user drug it out each time. Then later, as the story goes,
>another user discovered that all the files and folders from within that
>folder were now out of it, and in the same level directory. Meanwhile, when
>that user tried to delete the self-trashing folder (with the intent of
>re-creating it), he got a message that the folder could not be found (even
>as he was looking right at it). I had him reset the server (it's a small
>firm, luckily), and all seemed to normalize after that, but I had no
>explanation. This is sounding like it's a possibility.
Well, the part about not finding a folder that was in plain sight definitely
sounds like a DID problem. But the other symptoms I'm not so sure about, I
don't quite see how a DID confusion could cause a folder, or it's contents, to
spontaneously move around or into the Trash. Ultimately nothing actually
moves around on a volume unless afpd makes Unix syscalls to do the moves, at
which point everything has been reduced to pathnames and DIDs are irrelevant.
But I suppose it's possible, things can get pretty weird sometimes!
Bob
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