Hello Andreas How were the files put into xrootd? Were they written through xrootd (with xrdcp for example) or staged from a remote src ? If there were written to xrootd were different xrootd servers used ? Cheers, wilko On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Andreas Petzold wrote: > HI, > > we are running xrootd 3.3.2 and have configured a bunch of filesystems where xrootd can put the data (actually 4 servers all see the same GPFS filesystems): > > oss.space public /export/gka8301/xrootd/ > oss.space public /export/gka8302/xrootd/ > oss.space public /export/gka8303/xrootd/ > oss.space public /export/gka8304/xrootd/ > oss.space public /export/gka8305/xrootd/ > oss.space public /export/gka8306/xrootd/ > oss.space public /export/gka8307/xrootd/ > oss.space public /export/gka8308/xrootd/ > oss.space public /export/gka8309/xrootd/ > oss.space public /export/gka8310/xrootd/ > oss.space public /export/gka8311/xrootd/ > oss.space public /export/gka8312/xrootd/ > oss.space public /export/gka8313/xrootd/ > oss.space public /export/gka8314/xrootd/ > oss.space public /export/gka8315/xrootd/ > > oss.localroot /export/xrootd/ > > I've just discovered files where something seems to have gone very wrong when they were written: > > ll /export/xrootd/15/65005/e4ab025a-840e-11e3-9317-b38c94feed3c > lrwxrwxrwx 1 xrootd xrootd 53 Jan 23 10:15 /export/xrootd/15/65005/e4ab025a-840e-11e3-9317-b38c94feed3c -> /export/gka8305/xrootd/public/1B/4DA0CE526BED0000176% > > ll /export/xrootd/04/31086/82859ca4-8407-11e3-85ef-5b68ff9582bb > lrwxrwxrwx 1 xrootd xrootd 53 Jan 23 09:22 /export/xrootd/04/31086/82859ca4-8407-11e3-85ef-5b68ff9582bb -> /export/gka8305/xrootd/public/1B/4DA0CE526BED0000176% > > getfattr -d /export/xrootd/15/65005/e4ab025a-840e-11e3-9317-b38c94feed3c > getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names > # file: export/xrootd/15/65005/e4ab025a-840e-11e3-9317-b38c94feed3c > user.XrdFrm.Pfn="/export/xrootd/15/65005/e4ab025a-840e-11e3-9317-b38c94feed3c\000" > > getfattr -d /export/gka8305/xrootd/public/1B/4DA0CE526BED0000176% > getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names > # file: export/gka8305/xrootd/public/1B/4DA0CE526BED0000176% > user.XrdFrm.Pfn="/export/xrootd/15/65005/e4ab025a-840e-11e3-9317-b38c94feed3c\000" > > getfattr -d /export/xrootd/04/31086/82859ca4-8407-11e3-85ef-5b68ff9582bb > getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names > # file: export/xrootd/04/31086/82859ca4-8407-11e3-85ef-5b68ff9582bb > user.XrdFrm.Pfn="/export/xrootd/15/65005/e4ab025a-840e-11e3-9317-b38c94feed3c\000" > > So there are two different namespace entries pointing to the same file. How can something like this happen? > > Cheers, > > Andreas > > > ######################################################################## > Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list > > To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-L&A=1 > ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-L&A=1