Find Warning..

[Tom Broadhurst]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Nifty Hat Mitch
> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 6:03 PM
> To: akonstam at trinity.edu; For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Find Warning..
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:41:06PM -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:39:30PM +0200, Jos? Javier 
> Cuadrado wrote:
> > > Hello i just did a fresh install of FC4 and when i do a 
> find i get the following warning. Any tips to fix it? 
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > 
> > > find / -name <whatever> 
> > > find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: 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.
> > > -- 
> > Running find on /proc is bound to cause problems. /proc is 
> not a real
> > filesystem it is simulated filesystem created by the kernel to hold
> > various characteristics of your system.
> 
> This does seem to be a harmless bug in the /proc filesystem.
> 
> When I first saw this I dismissed it as the fast moving nature of 
> the /proc filesystem.  Find can often toss out errors because 
> what it found and
> what it 'sees'  (stat etc.) might not match or even still be 
> a moment later.
> 
> 
> 
> find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: 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.
> /proc
> /proc/bluetooth
> 
> But Looking a little bit closer...
> # ls -lid /proc
> 1 dr-xr-xr-x  140 root root 0 Jun 17 22:07 /proc
> # ls -ali /proc | wc
>     164    1636   11843
> 
> So this is why find is tellig us that something is wrong.
> There are 24 some 'things' that do not have an inode linked to
> /proc itself.
> 
> It is a pseudo filesystem intended to communicate to the user
> various kernel and process info.   It should have all the
> correctness of any filesystem so I suspect a real bug.
> 
> As best I can tell this is harmless.
> 
> 
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> 	T o m  M i t c h e l l 
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> 	Found me a cable too.
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> 
Tom

Excellent detective work.
This may be harmless, but, as you mention, it's still probably a bug.
At the least your explanation will allow me to sleep better.
Thanks again for confirming the problem.

Tom