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Moin,
On 27-Jul-01 Nicholas Clark tried to scribble about:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 05:54:01PM +0200, Tels wrote:
>> Unless I overlooked something really big, there would be no slowdown.
> nick@Bagpuss [Web]$ ls -al
> total 99574
> dr-x--x--x 2 nick root 2048 Feb 2 1999 .
> dr-x--x--x 2 nick root 2048 Sep 21 1972 ..
> dr-x--x--x 2 nick root 2048 Feb 2 1999 ODMRS
> dr-x--x--x 2 nick root 2048 Feb 2 1999 P
> dr-x--x--x 2 nick root 2048 Feb 9 1999 foo
>
> But it's probably easier to patch the adfs filesystem on Linux to give a
> link count of 1 for directories. [there is no real . or .. entry - it's
> faking it. And even if Russell King doesn't want such a change, I'm
> compiling my kernels, not him :-)]
Bugger! ;) Just ask him kindly, I don't think "usefull" (instead of
"right/wrong) nlink counts hurt, but they help some people. Like us ;)
> And adfs is hardly "really big"
What does adfs stand for?
>> This is of course a good solution to increase the File::Find speed, but
>> it won't help all these people that have file systems with wrong nlink
>> count
>
> Until someone can show me a spec that says that the link count on POSIX
> systems should behave in this way, I'd urge avoiding describing this as
> "wrong".
You know what I mean.
Cheers,
Tels
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