On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 09:38:57PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 09:40:09PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > I have a build machine building pkgsrc where I see some very strange > > issues. The individual chroots share a read-only null-mounted base > > directory with a number of tmpfs instances on top for most of the > > writeable parts. Symptoms of the some data corruption or race > > conditions: > > I've seen one more strange situation. While trying to interactively > debug a problem in an otherwise idle chroot, I've hit issues that look > like the current directory disappeared under the process. At least some > of the problems are visible on the releng build cluster as well, e.g. > files missing during the check-flist stage that clearly have been > installed before, impossible race conditions etc.
This reminds me of my PR 42484 from 2009, that I still see regularly today. Thomas
