On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Sorry this is s10 but I thought someone here may have some idea about this >> >> I just noticed (thanks to star complaining about missing links) that >> numerous (> 2000) files on the s10u4 SPARC DVD seem anomalous. >> >> # cd <root of dvd> >> # ls -il Solaris_10/Tools/Boot/usr/bin/{cp,ln,mv} >> 2777075 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 27360 Jan 25 2007 >> Solaris_10/Tools/Boot/usr/bin/cp >> 2777524 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 27360 Jan 25 2007 >> Solaris_10/Tools/Boot/usr/bin/ln >> 2777654 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 27360 Jan 25 2007 >> Solaris_10/Tools/Boot/usr/bin/mv >> >> # find . -inum 2777075 >> >> These directory entries are normally (in /usr/bin) links to the same >> file. It looks like the files have become copies on the DVD but the >> link-count field still reports the original number of links. >> >> Maybe this is normal, but I don't remember seeing it before. >> >> I don't know if this will cause any problems. > > > I think this is an issue with the hsfs reader in Solaris; it does not > generate inodes in a way that makes hardlinks work. > > (Although I also think that was recently fixed)
Yes: 4294956 hsfs creates wrong inode numbers for hard links went into build 72. FrankH. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org