Re: Problems with symlinks at storage/posix

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Just applied the patch, Thanks! Does this patch solve your problem
completely or is there something else?

avati

2009/1/16 Filipe Maia <filipe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> I tried running unify to replace my current NFS setup for my home
> directory but through unify I only saw 333 files on my home, compared
> to a couple more than a 1000 using NFS.
>
> After much digging I think i know the problem. In my home directory
> there is a link that points to a non-existing file (dangling symlink).
> In the posix_setdents the correct symlink is created but then the
> chmod right after it fails and setdents exists without creating any of
> the others entries on the namespace.
> The chmod fails because it tries to chmod the file pointed by the
> symlink, which does not exist (it fails with errno=2).
>
> I did some more tests and this can occur even if the symlink points
> somewhere as long as the symlink is created before the destination
> point.
>
> Attached is a patch proposal that seemed to work in my system. The
> patch is against 2.0.0rc1.
>
> Filipe
>
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