New server migration - part 2

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

I think I found the culprit....
If I cd to /appl/fpmerge, I see the following:        fpmerge ->
/appl/fpmerge

smh


On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 11:45 AM scooter6 at gmail.com <scooter6 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So after my previous post where Mark recommended to me to make file
> systems xfs, last night I started copying data to the new server
> I initially started by wanting to copy  /appl/fpmerge directory to new
> server
>
> So I cd to /appl
>
> scp -r fpmerge/ root at newhost:/u/appl/
>
> It ran for a bit and then I noticed I kept seeing the same file names over
> and over
> So I killed the scp and looked on new server and noticed it nested the
> /appl/fpmerge directory multiple times....?
> Meaning, I could cd to /appl/fpmerge, and /appl/fpmerge/fpmerge and
> /appl/fpmerge/fpmerge/fpmerge and so on....
> So like a dummy I figured it must have been the xfs file system I changed
> post install (stupid me)
> So I did a FRESH install on new server this morning of Centos 7 and made
> the file systems xfs from the beginning
>
> Started the same scp command above with the same exact result....
>
> So, then I looked on my EXISTING server, and sure enough that's what I
> have on my current server....???
> I've never seen this before in my life
>
> If I cd to /appl/fpmerge on existing server and see all my files, time
> stamps, etc everything looks good
> If I cd to /appl/fpmerge/fpmerge, I see the same exact files and same
> exact time stamps
> If I cd to /appl/fpmerge/fpmerge, I see the same exact files and same
> exact time stamps
>
> So far, I can get to at least this far (I stopped going further than this)
>
> /u/appl/fpmerge/fpmerge/fpmerge/fpmerge/fpmerge/fpmerge/fpmerge/fpmerge/fpmerge/fpmerge/fpmerge/fpmerge/fpmerge/fpmerge
>
> WTF?
> I have no clue how this can be with all files being at every level and
> having same time stamps etc
>
> Has anyone ever come across this before?
>
> Scott
> PDM
>
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