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Re: Link count wierdness


Corinna Vinschen writes:
> Netapp inode numbers are not reliable and thus the number of links isn't
> either.  There's a check in Cygwin which is the result of the early
> Cygwin 1.7 development.  It does not report the number of hardlinks
> and it fakes the inode numbers on netapp filesystems.

Ah OK, that explains the wierd output from fstat.  Is there a windows
program to query that information, perhaps?

> The file system returns STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER when calling
> NtQueryVolumeInformationFile(FileFsFullSizeInformation) for some
> reason.  If you're set up to build your own Cygwin DLL, we could
> perform two or three really quick tests to find out if there's a way
> to workaround this issue in Cygwin.

I am not yet but might be interested, is there a description somewhere
of what that takes?  I would need to use Git (is it ready yet?) since
CVS gets blocked by the firewall and the various scrapers using CVSweb
don't really work that well.


Regards,
Achim.
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