Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

[Jakob Oestergaard]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:59:18PM +0100, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
> 	Hi all,
> 
> I have seen the strange problem on our NFS server: yesterday I have
> found an empty file owned by UID 0/GID 0 and st_mode == 0 in my home
> directory (ls -l said "?--------- 1 root root 0 <date> <filename>").
> The <filename> was correct name of a temporary file used by one of my
> cron jobs (and the cron job was failing because it could not rewrite the file).
> It was not possible to write to this file, so I have renamed it
> as "badfile" for further investigation (using mv(1) on the NFS server itself).

Known problem

http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/11/23/283

Seems there is no solution yet

http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/11/30/145

...
> 
> Maybe some data is flushed in an incorrect order?

Maybe  :)

-- 

 / jakob

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