Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> 
>> I just ran an rsync from the main sl tree and noticed that a bunch of files
>> got deleted from 50/i386/SL/
>>
>> Sadly the list scrolled off my screen before I could grab it but include:
>>
>> freeglut-2.4.0-7.1.el5.i386.rpm
>> firefox-1.5.0.10-2.el5.i386.rpm (the -devel rpm is still there)
>> fonts* (only 3 are left)
>>
>> the repodata hasn't been updated so I can't believe that it was intended.
>>
>> By complete coincidence (I hope) I was just about to install freeglut and now
>> yum errors saying that the rpm file is missing...
> 
> I had checked by ftp (same answer) but when I just looked again the files
> seem to be back again.
> 
> Hopefully it isn't just that one of N servers has bad data.
> 
> If someone fixed it in the meantime then many thanks.
> 
>   -- Jon

Hi Jon,
This is an issue we are working on.  We believe it is an NFS client issue. 
That was the reason rsync.scientificlinux.org was rebooted a couple of weeks 
ago.  But the kernel put in then didn't fix it.
We're going to try the new kernel from RedHat, which fixed some NFS issues, and 
might fix this one.

Anyway, the symptom is that a bunch of files suddenly dissapear.  Most always, 
they are in alphabetical order (your's happen to be the f's I see).
They come back after some time.

The reason we think it is an NFS client issue, is because we are able to look 
at the back end with other clients and still see the files.

We're also going to soon switch rsync.scientificlinux.org to a new machine. 
We're getting it ready right now.

Troy
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