file has vanished

[Chuck Anderson]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:30:51PM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:30:14PM -0200, Ricardo J. Barberis wrote:
> > Sorry, I meant this line specificly:
> > 
> > > > > IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion 
> > 
> > It looks like it's not deleting the vanished files.
> 
> The IO error always accompanies the "file has vanished" messages.  I 
> would assume that the IO error message is a result of the "file has 
> vanished" messages.

Manual rsync listing shows the error too:

>rsync 
rsync://download1.fedora.redhat.com/fedora-enchilada/linux/updates/7/SRPMS/ | grep 8King 
file has vanished: 
"linux/updates/7/SRPMS/8Kingdoms-1.1.0-2.fc7.src.rpm" (in 
fedora-enchilada)
-rw-r--r--    21960477 2008/01/06 11:44:01 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-4.fc7.src.rpm
>ls -l 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-*
-rw-r--r-- 1 mirror mirror 21954697 Dec 11 11:27 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-2.fc7.src.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 mirror mirror 21960477 Jan  6 11:44 8Kingdoms-1.1.0-4.fc7.src.rpm

It's almost as if the underlying storage mechanism on the master 
server is caching directory entries for files that don't exist 
anymore.