Tino Calancha writes:
> Marv Graham writes:
>
>> This is VERY unexpected behavior! An 'rm -f' command has (for my experience
>> in the last 30 years) removed anything.
>>
>> What;'s the problem with rm on ubuntu?
> Flag -f won't delete directories.
> To remove anything, you'd use: rm -rf
Since
On 07/17/2017 12:33 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
feel free to reply > further with any results you get after reporting this to the right >
kernel folks.
I reproduced the bug on Fedora 26 x86-64, and filed a bug report here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471967
tag 27739 notabug
thanks
On 07/17/2017 01:58 PM, Christoph Michelbach wrote:
> The link counter of ls stops working if a directory exceeds being linked to
> 64'999 times.
ls is just reporting the value returned by stat() from the kernel; this
sounds like a kernel (or filesystem) bug. To double-c
The link counter of ls stops working if a directory exceeds being linked to
64'999 times.
You can replicate this by first creating a folder on an ext4 file system
$ mkdir deleteMe
and then filling it with 64'997 additional directories.
$ mkdir deleteMe/{1..64997}
At this point, ls stil
