Coda File System

Re: Strange behaviour with hard links

From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 12:40:48 -0400
joaquin_at_dit.upm.es said:
| I have been testing coda (5.2.2, debian client, redhat server) and I
| have observed a strange behaviour with hard links. Eg:

| % touch one
| % ls -l
| total 0
| -rw-rw-r--   1 joaquin  nogroup         0 May 28 18:08 one
| % ln one two
| % ls
| one  two
| % ls -l
| ls: two: No such file or directory
| total 0
| -rw-rw-r--   2 joaquin  nogroup         0 May 28 18:08 one

| It seems a bug.... 

And it is fixed (at least for 2.2.x kernels) in the latest version of
the coda kernel module:
  ftp.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/src/linux-coda-5.2.3-linux2.2.x.tgz

And no, the changes are not in any of the official kernels yet.

Jan
Received on 1999-05-28 12:45:24