Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:43:43 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com> To: admin@prnet.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disappearing files Message-ID: <4E312F4F.3090904@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <23d247b71b7fbb812daa6217121c9452.squirrel@www.prnet.org> References: <23d247b71b7fbb812daa6217121c9452.squirrel@www.prnet.org>
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On 7/28/2011 10:15 AM, admin@prnet.org wrote: > Hi, > > I am using FreeBSD 8.2 with an UFS filesystem containing a jail. I do a > tar of the whole jail every night. Suddenly after a few weeks of > operation, tar complains about being unable to stat /usr/lib/libmilter.so. > >> From inside the jail: > > ls /usr/lib | grep "^libmilter.so$" returns "libmilter.so" > ls /usr/lib/libmilter.so returns "ls: libmilter.so: No such file or > directory" > ls -l /usr/lib> /dev/null returns "ls: libmilter.so: No such file or > directory" > > Trying to access the file from the main system gives the same result. > > A reboot returns everything to normal. > > Exactly the same also appeared on another machine some time ago, the only > difference was that it appeared on another file. > > Does anyone know what can cause this problem ? File system corruption would cause such behavior. And/Or perhaps something is wrong with the underlying disk device. I would search the logs for messages indicating that the storage medium is failing. Does dmesg contain anything related? I would also unmount and fsck the file system. HTH, Nikos
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