Re: [Gluster-devel] Odd symlink problem

[Anand Avati]

Simon,
  A bug has been filed with your description at
http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=607. Please
add yourself to the bug CC list to keep track of its progress.

Thanks,
Avati

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Simon Brock <address@hidden> wrote:
> This might be our setup but I thought I should mention it.
>
> We have three machines in a gluster -- two CentOS 5 machines running 3.0.0 
> RPMS and a Solaris 10 machine running the latest version (yesterday) from the 
> GIT repository. The Solaris machine uses a ZFS partition so we can take 
> snapshots of what is going on on the other machines (which are development 
> machines). Issues are arising with files which are symlinked into the gluster 
> which are outside the gluster but do not exist on the Solaris machine. I can 
> replicate the problem like this:
>
> mkdir fred
> cd fred
> ln -s /var/tmp/this-does-not-exist
> ls -l
>     shows no files
> ls -l this-does-not-exist
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 shb widearea 28 Feb  8 13:07 this-does-not-exist -> 
> /var/tmp/this-does-not-exist
>
> and on the Solaris machine we get the error:
>
> [2010-02-08 13:07:51] E [posix.c:1834:posix_symlink] posix: lstat failed on 
> /common/fred/this-does-not-exist: No such file or directory
>
> I can 'cure' the problem by removing the Solaris machine and I cannot 
> duplicate this on our other, pure CentOS, gluster.
>
> This looks like a Solaris issue but I cannot see why from looking at the code.
>
> I guess the real question is whether any one else can reproduce this bug 
> using Solaris or whether (as it is quite weird) something to do with us.
>
> TIA
> Simon.------
> Wide Area Communications
> www.widearea.co.uk
>
>
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