[Virtualacorn-list] ShareFS producing triplicate unusable files on VRPC

[Dave Symes]

On 22 Oct, dave at triffid.co.uk wrote:
> In article <c4e.410e6d57.360a32d4 at aol.com>,
>    VA <atimbrell at aol.com> wrote: (23rd September)

> [Snippy]  
> > That's our current view of the problem. The new HostFS caches various
> > file information and updates the file after it's been written. However  I
> > suspect that in the case of ShareFS transfers the updating is  actually
> > happening before the file has been written.
> >  
> > Anyway we will know for sure fairly shortly.
> >  
> > Aaron

> Bugger, bugger...!
> I'd forgotten about that ...king problem and went ahead and did my usual
> auto backup between this SARPC and VRPV on my Laptop.
> End result many directories full of crap, which now have to be manually
> deleted.
> In fact this is so big a disaster, I'm having to delete whole directories
> full of files and transfer them again on a Pen drive.

> Are you any closer to solving this disaster?

> Dave S

Just remembered, I won't need to use the pen drive, I can use my
old/normal manual transfer method This machine ShareFS "Public" to VRPC
ShareFS "Public" transfer which doesn't suffer the multi file problem.

Still means a lot of additional work though.

Dave S

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