On May 22, 3:33pm, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
} Subject: Re: please hellllllllllllp me!
} * David Scheidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000522 14:30] wrote:
} > dscheidt@shell-2 ~ 536$ ls -al | grep .snapshot
} > dscheidt@shell-2 ~ 537$ ls -al .snapshot
} > total 60
} > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 4096 May 22 15:01 .
} > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 15:51 ..
} > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 14:58 hourly.0
} > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 13:52 hourly.1
} > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 13:00 hourly.2
} > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 10:52 hourly.3
} > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 19 16:34 nightly.0
} > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 19 16:34 nightly.1
} > dscheidt@shell-2 ~ 538$
} >
} > doesn't count then? This is a directory NFS-mounted from a NetApp. The
} > .snapshot directory is a lifesaver, and support cost cutter.
}
} If the netapp doesn't honor readdir requests properly then it's
} breaking unix semantics.
}
} Netapp is broken, there's no reason to intentionally hide this
} directory from readdir.
It would be really annoying to have to exclude all of these every
time you wanted to roll a tarball of a directory tree. Also, a lot
of the time you probably won't want find or other recursive things
to wander into these directories.
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