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Re: Link count wierdness
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:07:46 -0400
- Subject: Re: Link count wierdness
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 09:43:40PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> Netapp inode numbers are not reliable and thus the number of links isn't
>> either. There's a check in Cygwin which is the result of the early
>> Cygwin 1.7 development. It does not report the number of hardlinks
>> and it fakes the inode numbers on netapp filesystems.
>
>Ah OK, that explains the wierd output from fstat. Is there a windows
>program to query that information, perhaps?
>
>> The file system returns STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER when calling
>> NtQueryVolumeInformationFile(FileFsFullSizeInformation) for some
>> reason. If you're set up to build your own Cygwin DLL, we could
>> perform two or three really quick tests to find out if there's a way
>> to workaround this issue in Cygwin.
>
>I am not yet but might be interested, is there a description somewhere
>of what that takes? I would need to use Git (is it ready yet?) since
>CVS gets blocked by the firewall and the various scrapers using CVSweb
>don't really work that well.
git isn't ready yet unfortunately. Can't you just download a recent
snapshot? That should be good enough.
FWIW, CVS is blocked at my work (ironically, it's NetApp) too but I use
a ssh tunnel to work around that.
cgf
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