Unlistable, Undeletable File in old-jailed clientmqueue folder
Gitsnik
gitsnik at dracyrys.com
Tue Mar 11 00:12:20 UTC 2014
Thanks Tron you have solved my problem, I did not know that you could
import without mounting. After the scrub the folders did not show the 3,
they showed 2, and I could rm -rf the clientmqueue.
Thanks to everyone else who made comments and helped out.
On 10/03/2014 7:40 am, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
>
>> drwxrwx--- 2 root wheel 3 Oct 3 21:26 clientmqueue
> ^
> 3 links to this directory? --+
>
> ZFS is a bit peculiar as it records the number of links when dealing
> with directories.
>
> Assume for a moment that your clientmqueue directory really is empty.
> It should then have a link count of 2; the clientmqueue link and the
> dot link (.) inside the clientmqueue directory.
>
> Back to reality, why are there 3 links, not two, to an otherwise empty
> directory?
>
> Chances are that the qfq8G32oib058119 entry has somehow been
> transformed into a directory link pointing to dot.
>
> This is just speculation on my part. Maybe some bad memory got written
> to disk at some point, as ZFS assumes memory (RAM) is 100 % healthy at
> all times.
>
> You should make good backups of the pool's filesystems, export the
> pool and try booting from the latest stable/9 snapshot. Try to import
> the pool without mounting any of the filesystems (zpool import -N) and
> run zpool scrub. If all goes well, export the pool, reboot, and import
> the pool. Worst-case scenario is to re-create the pool and restoring
> everything from backups.
>
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