On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:37:40 -0600 tblader wrote:
Bertrand Leboeuf wrote:
Thanks,
there just seems to be a lot of them
From: tblader <tblader@flambeau.com>
Those are files NFS creates when the file it had locked/open/writing to wa s nuked or moved before it had a chance to complete. IIRC, they cannot be removed until the NFS daemon has given up on them [1].
[1] - from experience, not TFM
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:37:40 -0600 tblader wrote:
You're welcome. You may want to look into the exact cause of the problem how ever. The existence of those nfs dot files may suggest some file locking may need to be done.
There should be a cron job on the server that deletes those
From /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root:
15 3 * * 0 /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind
Looking at /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind: # less /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind #!/bin/sh # Copyright (c) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
#ident "@(#)nfsfind.sh 1.7 00/07/17 SMI" # # Check shared NFS filesystems for .nfs* files that # are more than a week old. # # These files are created by NFS clients when an open file # is removed. To preserve some semblance of Unix semantics # the client renames the file to a unique name so that the # file appears to have been removed from the directory, but # is still usable by the process that has the file open. [snip]
-Jeff
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