Hello List. I think i found a bug in the ext3 filesystem. It deals with dereferencing symlinks. I have installed a fresh openSUSE 10.2 on an ext3 filesystem. After that i wanted to include some selfmade LaTeX-classes by creating a symlink within /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex to the directory containing the class. texhash lists the new link within /usr/share/texmf/ls-R. However the complete content of the classes directory is missing. File and directory permissions are OK. I suspect that the dereferencing of symlinks to the target directory does not work on ext3. To check that i tested an older SuSE Installation with reiserfs, which works as expected. Another test i made was creating an ext3 fs, xfs and reiserfs on a loopback device. Within this test filesystem that i mounted temporarily to /mnt i created a symlink to /usr. Issuing the command ls -LRa, which is exactly what texhash is using and should dereference the link to /usr did not recursively list the contents of /usr on the ext3 filesystem whereas it did on the reiserfs and xfs. The test system was a dual opteron (x86_64) as well as a mobile Athlon (i386) system running openSUSE 10.2. I reported this on the opensuse mailing list first. Someone there was kind enough to point me directly to this list. Some more information which might be useful for people not being directly familiar with opensuse: - kernel 2.6.18.2 possibly with typical SuSE changes (SuSE release is 2.6.18.2-34-default) - e2fsprogs 1.39 - coreutils 6.4 Any ideas? Can anyone confirm that this is a bug? Any solutions? Best Regards Jens Jens Nie Physics ________________________________________________ Phone +49-591-9136-414 Fax +49-591-9136-121 JNie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.RosenInspection.net RTRC Germany Am Seitenkanal 8 49811 Lingen (Ems) GERMANY - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
