RE: rsync errors when using latest ftpsync

Hi Bastian,


-----Original Message-----
From: Bastian Blank [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, 15 October 2017 2:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: rsync errors when using latest ftpsync

> Hi Steve

> On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 08:11:45PM +1100, Steve (IWWD) wrote:
> > > > This is the log from the last execution:
> > > > Oct 14 12:00:01 debian ftpsync[19935]: Mirrorsync start Oct 14
> > > > 12:00:01 debian ftpsync[19935]: Running mirrorsync, update is 
> > > > required, 
> > > > /mirrors/debian//Archive-Update-Required-debian.localdomain
> > > > exists
> > > You system thinks it is called debian.localdomain.  So this system is not even completely setup yet.  It neither have a complete name in /etc/hosts, nor does get it from DNS.
> > Sorry, ignore this, I replaced the actual domain with this before sending just as a reference only, the systems DNS is correctly configured.

> The public name should be set anyway via MIRRORNAME, so it is not sensitive.

Correct, it is, so this is all good ;)

> > > > What kind of filesystem do you use?
> > The file system on the mirror instance is ext4 but the actual files are being saved on an NFS drive linked to a FreeNAS server, that is using ZFS; it has been this way since the mirror was setup years > ago.

> Okay.  FreeNAS (some kind of BSD, which version?) with ZFS.  Filesystem used via NFS 3 or 4.0 from a Debian Wheezy.

FreeNAS is running on:
FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE (FreeNAS.amd64) #0 r295946+21897e6695f(HEAD): Tue Jul 25 00:03:12 UTC 2017

The NFS version on the Debian mirror is Version 3.


> Can you please confirm that it also happens with a manual "ln -s"
> command on the NFS client?  What happens if you do it directly on the FreeNAS?

> What happens if you do directly on the FreeNAS:
> | ln -s /dev/null test1
> | ln test1 test2

Directly on the FreeNAS, it creates the first link with the appropriate user/group values, but when executing the 2nd command, it dies with "ln: test2: Cross-device link" but this is related to the creating of a hard-link across devices (to /dev/null).  If I create it as a softlink, it works fine.


Thanks
Steve.