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

[Dr Peter Young]

On 22 Oct 2008  Dave Symes <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?

Someone posted that Aaron's been ill. If so, best wishes for a speedy 
recovery.

With best wishes,

Peter.

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