Link count wierdness

[Christopher Faylor]

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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