Repeated directory creation bug

Scott Webster sewebster at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 01:55:02 GMT 2004


Yeah, i know.  Well, when I installed 2.6.3 the error message changed
(notice that it doesn't contain the string "make_bak_dir" anymore).

Here is another snippet of the error in action.  You can see that it
isn't the problem you described (where there used to be a file name
that is now a directory name).  It tries to create directories higher
up in the structure after already failing...

rsync: mkdir "/mnt/usbhd/Tuesday/home/anders/ibook_pics/iPhoto
Library/2000/03/01/Thumbs" failed: File exists (17)
rsync: mkdir "/mnt/usbhd/Tuesday/home/anders/ibook_pics/iPhoto
Library/2000/03/01/Originals" failed: File exists (17)
rsync: mkdir "/mnt/usbhd/Tuesday/home/anders/ibook_pics/iPhoto
Library/2000/03/01/Data" failed: File exists (17)
rsync: mkdir "/mnt/usbhd/Tuesday/home/anders/ibook_pics/iPhoto
Library/2000/03/01" failed: File exists (17)
rsync: mkdir "/mnt/usbhd/Tuesday/home/anders/ibook_pics/iPhoto
Library/2000/03" failed: File exists (17)
rsync: mkdir "/mnt/usbhd/Tuesday/home/anders/ibook_pics/iPhoto
Library/2000" failed: File exists (17)
rsync: mkdir "/mnt/usbhd/Tuesday/home/anders/ibook_pics/iPhoto
Library" failed: File exists (17)
rsync: mkdir "/mnt/usbhd/Tuesday/home/anders/ibook_pics" failed: File
exists (17)

It hasn't had this error for the past 5 days though, maybe it fixed itself :)

Thanks,

Scott


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:31:17 -0700, Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:52:41PM -0700, Scott Webster wrote:
> > and seems to be mistakenly trying to recreate the directory when
> > copying another file in the same directory over?
> 
> I doubt it -- that is what 2.6.2 was doing, but not 2.6.3 -- 2.6.3 only
> calls make_bak_dir() when it gets an ENOENT error trying to move the
> backup file into place.
> 
> 
> 
> ..wayne..
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