Disappearance of symbolic links' contents.

[Dr A V Le Blanc]

I have been having a problem with arla 0.33.1 on Linux
2.2.16 with glibc 2.1.3.  On machines which are in heavy use,
symbolic links tend to lose their reference.  Thus a link
which normally appears as

     ls -l fred
     fred -> george

will appear like this after a while instead:

     fred ->

In some cases I have been able to get round this by making
fred another mount point for a volume, but this is unsatisfactory
where george is a file, or a subdirectory inside a volume.

Has anyone else seen this?

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc at mcc.ac.uk