Re: Odd rm behavior on 5.4-S with 3ware raid

From: Brandon Fosdick (bfoz_at_bfoz.net)
Date: 08/28/05

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To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@bfoz.net>

    heh...typed too fast. It appears that my array filling script didn't die when I told it to, or maybe an older instance was still running. Hard to say for sure, but it was still running and when I made room on the array it started filling it up. Just like it was supposed to.

    Sorry for the trouble. Nothing to see here...move along. :)

    Brandon Fosdick wrote:
    > The machine is an amd64 running 5.4-S with a 3ware 9500S-12 card.
    >
    > I wrote a test script to fill up the raid array with lots of files, and
    > it did just that. Afterwards I did a 'rm *' to clean out the test files
    > and naturally checked the results with ls. All the files were gone. For
    > some reason, after waiting a few seconds, I did ls again. Some of the
    > files had magically reappeared. After a few more seconds, more files
    > were back. Its still happening as I type this. The drive lights are
    > flashing wildly, but I kind of expected that. df is also showing that
    > the array is filling back up.
    >
    > Any ideas? Is my computer possessed?
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