Cannot remove zfs empty directory

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 6:20 PM Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 15:05:01 +0100
> Ali Abdallah <ali.abdallah at suse.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm having a strange issue deleting an empty folder on the zfs
> > dataset zroot/usr/home
> >
> > $ cd $HOME/.cache/chromium/Default
> > $ ls -la
> > drwx------  3 ali  ali  3 Nov  6 14:40 ./
> > drwx------  3 ali  ali  3 Nov  6 14:33 ../
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 ali  ali  4 Oct 19 11:30 cache/
> > $ rm -rf cache
> > rm: cache/: Directory not empty
> >
> > $ ls -ld cache
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 ali  ali  4 Oct 19 11:30 cache/
> >
> > the size is 4, which is strange since the directory looks totally empty.
> >
> > ls -la cache/
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 ali  ali  4 Oct 19 11:30 ./
> > drwx------  3 ali  ali  3 Nov  6 14:40 ..
> >
> > I don't have chromium since long time, originally the machine was
> > running FreeBSD 12.1 (now running FreeBSD 12.2), but the issue was
> > present before the upgrade.
> >
> > zpool status -v gives not errors at all.
> >
> > It is not a big deal, but just trying to understand what is happening
> > here.
> >
>
> Try ls -lo.  There might be some chflags(1) flags set which prevent
> deletion.
>
> --
> Gary Jennejohn
> _______________________________________________
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>

Also there may be a file with a "blank" name .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk