[daip] path unlink failure

[lincoln greenhill]

Hi Eric,

I think that you are right about identifying the FS on the disk.

After Alice wrote to you, I found the following:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-58436.html
(see last two entries in the thread at the bottom of the page).

After reading this, I ran Disk Utility and found that the disk (previously 
unused) was indeed DOS.  I have reformatted it in HFS+, and we will try again.
I anticipate success, though that is contrary to my nature.

Thanks very much.

Best,
l.



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:24:51 -0700
From: Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu>
To: Alice Argon <alice at cfa.harvard.edu>
Cc: daip at nrao.edu, srosenthal at cfa.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: Y2KL test

This is the second report of this problem on a Mac (the other did not
mention the nature of the disk).  I think you need to look at what
sort of file system is on the disk and what the OS will support for
it.  We do a standard rename operation that is supposed to work on all
compliant OS.  Apparently it does not work on some file systems (DOS
based?).

This is an OS problem not an aips problem - we use rename to update a
file by writing a new one and then, if that works okay, deleting the
old and renaming the scratch.  It is a safety thing but rename has to
work as the error messages have told you.

Let me know what the solution turns out to be (Craig has used firewire
on his machines with no apparent problem of this sort).

Eric Greisen


shoshana rosenthal wrote:
> HI,
> 
> Just in case you have not received the following message.
> 
> S.
> 
> 

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