freebsd stable - Aug 2005 - Odd rm behavior on 5.4-S with 3ware raid

The machine is an amd64 running 5.4-S with a 3ware 9500S-12 card.

I wrote a test script to fill up the raid array with lots of files, and it did
just that. Afterwards I did a 'rm *' to clean out the test files and
naturally checked the results with ls. All the files were gone. For some reason,
after waiting a few seconds, I did ls again. Some of the files had magically
reappeared. After a few more seconds, more files were back. Its still happening
as I type this. The drive lights are flashing wildly, but I kind of expected
that. df is also showing that the array is filling back up.

Any ideas? Is my computer possessed?

heh...typed too fast. It appears that my array filling script didn't die
when I told it to, or maybe an older instance was still running. Hard to say for
sure, but it was still running and when I made room on the array it started
filling it up. Just like it was supposed to.

Sorry for the trouble. Nothing to see here...move along. :)

Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> The machine is an amd64 running 5.4-S with a 3ware 9500S-12 card.
> 
> I wrote a test script to fill up the raid array with lots of files, and 
> it did just that. Afterwards I did a 'rm *' to clean out the test
files
> and naturally checked the results with ls. All the files were gone. For 
> some reason, after waiting a few seconds, I did ls again. Some of the 
> files had magically reappeared. After a few more seconds, more files 
> were back. Its still happening as I type this. The drive lights are 
> flashing wildly, but I kind of expected that. df is also showing that 
> the array is filling back up.
> 
> Any ideas? Is my computer possessed?