Small local dir refuses to sync, others AOK.

[Mike.MacCana at nab.com.au]

Hi guys,

I'm having a problem rsyncing between two directories on local disk.

I wish to sync the local directory /local/CA/eTrustDirectory/dxserver/ldif
to the other local directory /local/CA/archive.

'rsync -vvvr --progress /local/CA/eTrustDirectory/dxserver/ldif
/local/CA/archive' pauses at:
make_file(4,ldif/MELLDRBIB11-ldsau004wm1/ldbau004v1_20060330.0204.raw)
make_file(4,ldif/MELLDRBIB11-ldsau004wm1/ldbau004v1_20060331.0204.raw)
782 files to consider

For at least 50 minutes (I cancel it at this point - it's only 27MB of
files). Running an 'strace -f' gives

[pid 17960]
lstat64("ldif/MELLDRBIB11-ldsau004wm1/ldbau004v1_20060331.0204.raw",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
[pid 17960] write(1, "make_file(4,ldif/MELLDRBIB11-lds"...,
71make_file(4,ldif/MELLDRBIB11-ldsau004wm1/ldbau004v1_20060331.0204.raw)
) = 71
[pid 17960] getdents64(6, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0
[pid 17960] close(6)                    = 0
[pid 17960] getdents64(3, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0
[pid 17960] close(3)                    = 0
[pid 17960] chdir("/local/CA/eTrustDirectory/dxserver") = 0
[pid 17960] write(1, "782 files to consider\n", 22782 files to consider
) = 22
[pid 17960] open("/etc/mtab", O_RDONLY) = 3
[pid 17960] fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=509, ...}) = 0
[pid 17960] old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb75f9000
[pid 17960] read(3, "/dev/sda2 / ext3 rw 0 0\nnone /pr"..., 4096) = 509
[pid 17960] close(3)                    = 0
[pid 17960] munmap(0xb75f9000, 4096)    = 0
[pid 17960] open("/proc/meminfo", O_RDONLY) = 3
[pid 17960] fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
[pid 17960] old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb75f8000
[pid 17960] read(3, "        total:    used:    free:"..., 4096) = 786
[pid 17960] close(3)                    = 0
[pid 17960] munmap(0xb75f8000, 4096)    = 0
[pid 17960] select(5, NULL, [4], NULL, {60, 0}

(then very long pause with no updates).

I'm using rsync 2.5.7, release 5.3E on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
The command is running as root.

Weird thing is: there's another directory on the machine called 'logs',
with 490MB of data. Running:

rsync -vvvr --progress /local/CA/eTrustDirectory/dxserver/logs
/local/CA/archive

works fine.

Syncing the ldif dir to /tmp/foo also fails. So it looks like there's
something wrong with the ldif dir - the only thing that makes it different
from the dir that works is that it's got subdirs (indeed, I can sync the
ldif dir non-recursively fine).

Mike

Mike MacCana | Technical Specialist - Platform Services Engineering |
Institutional Markets & Services | National Australia Bank
Phone +61 4 1939 4504 | Email mike.maccana@ nab.com.au | Lvl 14, 500 Bourke
St, Melbourne


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