Portable Home Directories syncing things that haven’t changed

[zcutlip]

Hi,

I’ve got PHD working with OpenLDAP+NFS on linux. The problem is the syncs are taking a long time both on login/logout and background syncs. Looking at the logs, it seems that FileSyncAgent is detecting modification on things that shouldn’t have changed. I think most, if not all, of the home directory is getting re-synced each time. I suspect the problem may be related to FileSyncAgent being foiled by the linux NFS server reporting modification times, file sizes, or permisisons differently than what it is expecting. I’m not sure of this however. The log only reports that the files synced have been modified. It doesn’t report what the modification is, even with debugOutput turned up to 3.

Has anyone encountered this and know what could cause it?

Is there any chance that using AFP rather than NFS might help?

Thanks

[Magus255]

Are you running leopard on the mac? I am having what seems to be the same problem syncing to a CIFS share. Have you found any more info?

[Greg Neagle]

I’m now seeing a similar issue – and this is a recent development as of 10.5.6 (and maybe 10.5.5). I have not yet figured out the trigger.

-Greg

[Magus255]

It appears to be 10.5.6. Replacing file sync and filesyncagent appears to fix it.
Check http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1866117&tstart=0 for more info.

[zcutlip]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Magus255[/u][p]Are you running leopard on the mac? I am having what seems to be the same problem syncing to a CIFS share. Have you found any more info?[/p][/QUOTE]

Yes, I’m running 10.5.6. This is my second go-around with PHD. I gave it a try over the summer as well, and I seem to recall a similar problem, but consensus seems to indicate that this just started with 10.5.6.

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