dhyams@aut.autelca.ascom.ch (David Hyams) (02/06/91)
I have just had problems with some files become invisible, does anyone have any ideas what's going on??? sun11:biel> ls xrb.h xrb.h # file exists sun11:biel> ls x*.h xcomm.h xfdata.h xkeyhan.h xmp.h xshowinf.h xwarn.h xcommuni.h xfileacc.h xlib.h xmvsint.h xst_han.h xwkmifac.h xdebiter.h xinfo.h xmoddriv.h xnumdis.h xstats.h xzmiface.h xdial3.h xinterp.h xmodem.h xpmdata.h xsupervs.h xdigdis.h xio3.h xmonitor.h xscan.h xuserint.h sun11:biel> notice anything? xrb.h not listed!! Now, lets try and rename the file... sun11:biel> mv xrb.h XXXX sun11:biel> mv XXXX xrb.h sun11:biel> ls x*.h xcomm.h xfdata.h xkeyhan.h xmp.h xscan.h xuserint.h xcommuni.h xfileacc.h xlib.h xmvsint.h xshowinf.h xwarn.h xdebiter.h xinfo.h xmoddriv.h xnumdis.h xst_han.h xwkmifac.h xdial3.h xinterp.h xmodem.h xpmdata.h xstats.h xzmiface.h xdigdis.h xio3.h xmonitor.h xrb.h xsupervs.h sun11:biel> xrb.h has magically reappeared!! Now, what about this - sun11:biel> ls | wc 271 271 2117 sun11:biel> but if somebody else logs in and tries the same (ls | wc) he gets 280 280 2201 which is what the answer should be! Any ideas? I suspected that the directory entry got corrupted somehow (so how come other people get the right number of files listed while I get 9 less than this?), so I copied all files to another directory and deleted the old one. Everything seems to be OK now, but I'm still a little worried... BTW, this is a SPARCstation 1 connected to a server running NFS. OS version 4.1 (I think)