I was wondering if ext3 kept track of these things, apparently it does not.
At my university, we have physical storage in a filesystem, and we assign professors and students space by doing a symbolic link. Basically I want to keep track of physical storage with virtual/logical storage. Thats why I ask :-)
TIA
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How about
--On 21 June 2008 22:03:03 -0400 Mag Gam <magawake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there a way to index symbolic links in ext3? For example, I want to
keep track of all symbolic links on the filesystem (soft mainly). I think
I would have to write a wrapper around ln to keep it in a database, but I
was wondering if anyone has done something similar to this.
find [mount point] -type l -x -print
Wrapping ln won't do the job completely as (a) it won't track the links
being removed (e.g. via rm), and (b) it won't track links being created
by programs other than ln which use the library or the system call
directly.
When you say "mainly soft", remember EVERY file /is/ a hard link. Just
some files have more than one. Look at the "-links" option to find, which
is easy enough for normal files though you will have to do a bit of thinking
re hard linked directories, "." and "..".
Alex
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