On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Simon Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 27 Aug 2008, at 02:18, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote: > >> In message >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Mike Shaddock >> writes: >>> >>> I'm looking for a version of du where the -x option (skip directories on >>> different file systems) doesn't traverse an AFS mount poi >>> nt. Haven't been able to find anything via searching, so I thought I'd >>> ask here. >> >> i have an interesting idea. on linux this would be pretty easy. >> after generic_fill_attr() we could encode the volumeid in the i_dev >> field instead of the s_dev field from the superblock. this should make >> this work. i cant think of anything it would break. > > Unless I'm missing something, this breaks anything that relies on stat's > st_dev field to determine whether a file is in AFS or not. Filedrawers is > one example, and I'm sure there are others.
I wanted to do something like this to make Finder happy on MacOS; The side effects get exciting. I might have notes somewhere. I recommend against it. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
