Hi Philippe, Philippe Malinge: > I guess below information will clarify the issue.
Now we have common recognition that the target dir in on writable branch filesystem. And I need to ask you the same question again, > > And do you mean that after rm -fr failure there left the whiteouts > > (dummy.3312/.wh.XXXX) and the regular files (dummy.3312/XXXX)? > > Won't you try strace to see the return value of unlink(2) to the children? Shall we make these things clear by the output of strace? - rm(1) got all the entries under the dir. - rm(1) issued unlink(2) to all the gotten entries. - all unlink(2) succeeded. On my test environment, aufs on nfs-server can remove the dir who has 16384 children. Of course 'rm -fr' is executed on nfs-client. Junjiro Okajima ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/