Odd problem with a change not propagating..

[mmarion@qualcomm.com]

Don't know if anyone's seen this, or if it's a known issue, but I made some 
changes yesterday where I changed a couple directories into symlinks..
i.e.
qt was a dir, changed it to:
qt -> .qt. at sys
with new .qt.i386_linux24 and .qt.amd64_linux26 paths.

On a couple of the amd64_linux26 hosts, the change is seen in rw space, but
not ro.  I've tried fs flush[v] on the paths and the parent.. doesn't seem to
help.  Only thing I know is that the hosts where this seems to have gotten
stuck.. are ones that had active jobs on them when the volumes were released..
those that were totally idle were ok.

Rebooting (or restarting arla.. if I can) seems to clear this up.

ls shows the problem:
Read-only:
preto066 mmarion {501}$ cd /pkg/qct/software/
preto066 software {502}$ ls -al | egrep 'qt|ssl'
drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root  2048 2003-09-17 15:54 openssl
drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root  2048 2004-09-02 17:05 .openssl.amd64_linux26
drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root  2048 2003-09-17 15:54 .openssl.i386_linux24
drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root  2048 2003-09-17 15:58 qt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root  2048 2004-09-02 17:45 .qt.amd64_linux26
drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root  2048 2003-09-17 15:58 .qt.i386_linux24

Read-write:
preto066 software {503}$ cd /.pkg/qct/software/
preto066 software {504}$ ls -al | egrep 'qt|ssl'
lrwxr-xr-x   1    90113 root    13 2004-09-02 16:51 openssl -> .openssl. at sys
drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root  2048 2004-09-02 17:05 .openssl.amd64_linux26
drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root  2048 2003-09-17 15:54 .openssl.i386_linux24
lrwxr-xr-x   1 mmarion  root     8 2004-09-02 13:52 qt -> .qt. at sys
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root  2048 2004-09-02 17:45 .qt.amd64_linux26
drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root  2048 2003-09-17 15:58 .qt.i386_linux24

RO on another host that's ok:
preto054 mmarion {506}$ cd /pkg/qct/software/
preto054 software {507}$ ls -al | egrep 'qt|ssl'
lrwxr-xr-x   1    90113 root    13 2004-09-02 16:51 openssl -> .openssl. at sys
drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root  2048 2004-09-02 17:05 .openssl.amd64_linux26
drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root  2048 2003-09-17 15:54 .openssl.i386_linux24
lrwxr-xr-x   1 mmarion  root     8 2004-09-02 13:52 qt -> .qt. at sys
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root  2048 2004-09-02 17:45 .qt.amd64_linux26
drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root  2048 2003-09-17 15:58 .qt.i386_linux24


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