On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 16:52:56 -0500, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> 
> On 1/6/20 4:31 PM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 16:13:25 -0500, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> >>files on the holding disks and removed them. Then amflush launched
> >>alright. However, it only offered me the last two runs to flush
> >>files from. The holding disks show directories for a couple of other
> >>dates. How does that happen? How does one clean that up?
> >What does "ls -Rl" show for the holding disk directory tree?
> >
> >                                                     Nathan
> >
> 
> OK. In the older directories (just a few days older), all the
> filenames end in .tmp. In the newer directories, they do not. Is
> that what you were looking for? Do you want me to put the humongous
> long output (5144 lines) into an email? I don't see any other
> difference, except that the newer two directories had pid files
> (empty) corresponding to when I started the amflush.

Hmmmm.


I guess one question is why are there so many files in your holding disk
directory tree?  How many of those are from the recent runs (i.e. the
runs you know didn't get written to disk and which amflush offers as an
option for flushing) v.s. left over, "stale" files from previous runs?


Meanwhile, back to tracking down why amflush doesn't include the older
directories in the list of directories to flush: are the .tmp files you
mentioned empty files?

There was a discussion about .tmp-file handling in amflush here on this
list in Nov 2017 under the Subject heading "Re: amflush and
.tmp files in holding directory"... but the upshot of that was that
amflush does (normally) include .tmp files in its processing.

However, looking at the source it seems like amflush does do some
searching for "valid" files as part of building the list of dates to
present to the user....

Can you find a specific directory under your holding disk which isn't
included in the list pressented by amflush but only contains a fairly
small number of files under it, and sent the "ls -l" output for that one
directory?

                                                Nathan

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