Since we moved to 5.3 (actually 5.3.2R1P1) we see occasional failures in various Unix automated management procedures. I've finally traced this to the "rm -rf" command failing. On Solaris systems it fails with:
rm -rf /<filer>/x rm: Unable to remove directory /<filer>/x/y/z: File exists
On SGI systems the slightly more meaningful error message is
/<filer>/x/y/z: Directory not empty
However, just repeating the rm -rf command once more works perfectly and the directory tree has gone.
I don't think it's anything to to with CIFS file locking since some of the directories are old and have not been used for a long time. Has anyone else seen this?
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