strange problem with multiple "trashed" folders

Thursday 16 December 2010 11:03:47 am

I noticed a very strange thing happening on my ezp site...

In the storage/images folder a lot of recursive trashed folders are created, for example:

var/sitename/storage/images/.../37867-25-cro-HR/trashed/trashed/trashed/trashed/trashed/trashed

When I took a look at the content of these folder I notice another strange thing. All files in the folder have the same size and the sum of their sizes doesn't match the disk usage reported for this folder. For example I have 28 files all with 512K size (which total to 14 MB) but disk usage reported for this folder is only 512K.

It seems like all of the 28 files are just hard links to the same file.

This problem is not specific for my site, because I found a similar problem on issues:

http://issues.ez.no/IssueView.php?Id=16823

It's not the very same problem, because my site is not on a clustered ezp installation, but the pattern with repeated "trashed" folders is the same.

Also, the problem doesn't occur for only one object, it happens for many different objects.

So any clue why does this happen?

Is it a bug?

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Hubert Farnsworth

Thursday 16 December 2010 12:25:52 pm

I think I nailed it, it's a bug:

http://issues.ez.no/IssueView.php?Id=17781&activeItem=1

Can someone confirm it?

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Hubert Farnsworth

Monday 20 December 2010 6:58:47 am

I'm on it.

My god, this part is weird :-)

Bertrand Dunogier
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Thursday 31 March 2011 11:20:33 am

Will it be fixed in the 4.5 community release?

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Hubert Farnsworth

Friday 01 April 2011 1:20:36 am

Any chance that we'll also get a sanitizer script that will clean up all redundant "trashed" folders and images?

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Hubert Farnsworth

Friday 01 April 2011 7:43:05 am

The fix should be committed very soon.

About the sanitizer script, I need more information like your current situation (Are your objects still in the trash ?) and the situation you want to get back to.

Please add comments inside the issue :).

Thanks !

Thursday 04 August 2011 12:35:41 am

The sanitizer script can be found in:
eZ Publish 4.6: https://github.com/ezsystems/ezpublish/commit/67d2c9ec4b7cf581c261438a0351076a9a0b1db4

Thanks for your patience!

Cheers,
Patrick