[OpenAFS] Re: 1.4.14 with 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5?

Jason Edgecombe jason@rampaginggeek.com
Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:43:31 -0400


On 09/14/2011 02:41 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> On 9/13/2011 11:48 PM, Andrew Deason wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:07:04 -0400
>> Jeff Blaine<jblaine@kickflop.net>  wrote:
>>
>>> -bash-3.2# time /afs/rcf/user/jblaine/afs-exercise.sh
>>> find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for .: this may be a bug in 
>>> your
>>> filesystem driver.  Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.
>>> Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have
>>> been searched.
>>
>> Is the problem just this message? This is known:
>>
>>         -noleaf
>>                Do  not  optimize  by  assuming that directories 
>> contain 2 fewer
>>                subdirectories than their  hard  link  count.   This  
>> option  is
>>                needed  when  searching  filesystems that do not 
>> follow the Unix
>>                directory-link convention, such as CD-ROM or MS-DOS  
>> filesystems
>>                or  AFS  volume  mount  points.
>
> Interesting.  We've never seen this warning before.  I've
> added -noleaf to address that.
>
> I'm not sure yet if there is another problem.  Now that I've
> gotten past this, it's on to determining that.  The user of
> the box indicated he had turned it off months ago because
> AFS was too slow on it (sigh).  So now we're investigating
> and starting fresh.

FYI, I see this message all the time on RHEL5. Using the "-noleaf" 
option makes the message go away for me. I often forget to add the 
"-noleaf" option to "find".

Jason