Subject: Huge unexpected file/dir deletions without user intervention
From: Hans-Peter Jansen (hpj.lisa@t-online.de)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 20:59:24 EDT
Hi netatalk community,
once again, we got beaten by some strange effects
in an installation of
Linux-i386-2.2.14-netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.4-3{7b|9}
and MacOS 9.04. It happened, that huge amounts of data got
deleted several times without reason! To be able to track
down the problem, I kicked some syslog-messages into afpd.
Now, we can happily see, which user delete which files, but
cannot figure out, why it happens. There is Norton's antivir
installed on every box, but randomly, complete directory
trees (around 2 GB) disappeared from the server. The concerned
users swear, they haven't triggered it, and didn't notice any
suspicious behavior.
I got bitten by this effect one day myself, while _moving_ some
dirs between two partitions. They simply _disappeared_, and had to
be restored from the original source. I'm sure, I _haven't_
_deleted_ them! (Too bad, the syslog messages weren't at this
time)
Does this effect relate to the caveat in man afpd:
It is not possible to move directories between devices.
Does anybody suffered from those problems here?
Does somebody has some explanation for this effect?
They do work with the famous qxp 4.1r1 on local files (because
of well known file save problems of this poorgram(TM) on the server),
containing links to images on the server. (Mac alias problem?)
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Hans-Peter
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