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Re: Link count wierdness
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:43:40 +0200
- Subject: Re: Link count wierdness
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- References: <87oawnvovw dot fsf at Rainer dot invalid> <20140717183915 dot GT15332 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
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.
Regards,
Achim.
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