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swann25
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 Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:45 pm Post subject: strange "stat" behavior - symlink is not detected |
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Hello.
I've encountered a strange problem on a server with XFS:
- I have a "parent_dir" that contains a "sub_dir"
- when doing "ls parent_dir", "sub_dir" is listed as normal dir
- "stat sub_dir" returns a normal dir: | Code: | Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 2684964793 Links: 3
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 999/id) Gid: ( 600/ftpusers)
Access: 2008-12-24 00:32:43.693275410 +0100
Modify: 2008-12-24 00:41:10.155913021 +0100
Change: 2010-03-25 18:41:47.789395168 +0100 |
- "ls sub_dir" gives a list of files
- I have a C++ program that traverse "parent_dir" (using "lstat" etc.) and it descends into "sub_dir"
- everything would indicate that "sub_dir" is just a normal dir
On the other hand:
- "stat parent_dir" outputs:
, therefore "parent_dir" has only 2 hard links, no subdirs; this would be correct only if "sub_dir" is symlink
- "find file sub_dir" returns nothing without "-L" option
- if using "find -L file sub_dir", file is found
- everything indicates that "sub_dir" is a symlink
I'm really lost here . Any help will be appreciated. |
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Genone
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Simply try to unlink() or cp (without options) sub_dir, if it's a symlink it will work, if it's a directory it will fail. |
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swann25
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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Hello.
"cp" fails if you copy a dir or a symlink to a dir, so it's not useful.
I would not try to remove it, because it's on a production server etc.
I believe it's the filesystem that got corrupted, but I would not run an xfs.check  |
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