[OpenAFS-devel] stat bug?

[Derek Atkins]

Keep in mind that a mount point is just a special symlink.  You can
make a mountpoint using 'ln -s' if you know the magic to use.  So as
far as the FileServer is concerned, there is nothing special about a
mountpoint; it is treated like any other symlink.  The client,
however, treats it special, but again it does it by 'name' not by
'type'.

-derek

chas williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

> >GNU find has a flag exactly for this purpose (-noleaf).  Fixing it
> 
> i discovered this actually.  i am surprised i havent needed it before but
> then again i usually dont wander outside my volume.
> 
> >would be nice, but right now the cache manager simply passes the
> >file server's LinkCount as nlink..  In order to get a more correct
> >link count it would have to FetchStatus every file in that directory
> 
> i was wondering if linkcount should also count the mount points?
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