Hi Bockjoo, That would be correct. Not specifying mdhold causes the redirector to not hold on to the success or failure of a directory lookup. So, the question is who is actually issuing that message; the redirector or the server? Andy On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, Bockjoo Kim wrote: > I removed 'mdhold 20m' in the cms.dfs directive, but I still see the FTS error: > ***@***.*** ~]# grep cms.dfs /etc/xrootd/xrootd-clustered.cfg > #cms.dfs lookup distrib redirect immed > #cms.dfs lookup central mdhold 20m redirect verify > cms.dfs lookup central redirect verify > > ***@***.*** ~]# grep "Unable to mkdir" /var/log/xrootd/clustered/xrootd.log | grep /store/mc/RunIISummer20UL18RECO/ST_t-channel_top_4f_hdampdown_InclusiveDecays_TuneCP5_13TeV-powheg-madspin-pythia8 > 210715 21:27:08 28972 ofs_mkdir: ***@***.*** Unable to mkdir /store/mc/RunIISummer20UL18RECO/ST_t-channel_top_4f_hdampdown_InclusiveDecays_TuneCP5_13TeV-powheg-madspin-pythia8/AODSIM/106X_upgrade2018_realistic_v11_L1v1-v3/130000; no such file or directory > > Is 'cms.dfs lookup central redirect verify' the correct config that you suggested in https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/1479#issuecomment-880079190 ? > Thanks, > Bockjoo > > -- > You are receiving this because you commented. > Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: > https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/1479#issuecomment-881125910 -- 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/1479#issuecomment-881162919 ######################################################################## 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