Following setup: - Redirector without direct filesystem access, configured like: ```cms.dfs limit 0 lookup distrib mdhold 0 redirect immed retries 2``` - All data nodes have access to the files (i.e. shared filesystem behind them). Now, listing a directory with `xrdfs` works fine: ``` $ xrdfs redirector.example.com ls -ul /cephfs/grid/atlas/user/scratch/freyermu /cephfs/grid/atlas/user/scratch/freyermu/bla.root /cephfs/grid/atlas/user/scratch/freyermu/blub ``` and on the redirector, I see: ``` Decode xrootd sent XXX@YYY 'Swxrootd003.example.com Swxrootd001.example.com:1094 Swxrootd006.example.com:1094 Swxrootd007.example.com:1094 Swxrootd002.example.com Swxrootd004.example.com Swxrootd005.example.com:1094' */cephfs/grid/atlas/user/scratch/freyermu ``` Up to now, all is well. But `xrdcp -r` fails: ``` $ xrdcp --debug 1 -r xroot://redirector.example.com:1094//cephfs/grid/atlas/user/scratch/freyermu/ bla/ [2019-03-29 19:55:19.309750 +0100][Info ][App ] Failed to get directory listing for xroot://redirector.example.com:1094//cephfs/grid/atlas/user/scratch/freyermu/: Unable to open directory /cephfs/grid/atlas/user/scratch/freyermu/; no such file or directory Error indexing remote directory. ``` In the logs of the redirector, I find: ``` Decode xrootd redirects XXX@YYY to xrootd001.example.com:1094 /cephfs/grid/atlas/user/scratch/freyermu/ ofs_opendir: XXX@YYY Unable to open directory /cephfs/grid/atlas/user/scratch/freyermu/; no such file or directory ``` So for some reason, it seems that the directory listing requested by `xrdcp -r` is not honuring `lookup distrib` but performed on the redirector - even worse, the redirector checks locally instead of performing a distributed lookup itself. Doing an `xrdcp` of single files works fine, of course. Is this a misconfiguration somewhere? Since `xrdfs ls` works, I doubt it, but let me know if something comes to mind. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/954 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1