FC4: Hard link count is wrong?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Mon Sep 19 14:34:52 UTC 2005
Hongwei Li wrote:
> I installed a single, fresh fc4 system, kernel 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4. When I run
> find command, I got a warning such as:
>
> # find / -name sendmail -print
> /etc/log.d/scripts/services/sendmail
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail
> /etc/sysconfig/sendmail
> 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.
> /usr/lib/sendmail
> /usr/sbin/sendmail
> /var/lock/subsys/sendmail
>
> What does this warning mean? Any bug in my filesystem? How to find the bug?
> If I run:
>
> # find / -noleaf -name sendmail -print
>
> then, no warning with the same outputs of other things. The man page of find
> shows the same text as in fc3, but I never got such warning in my several fc3
> systems. So, what is the change from fc3 to fc4 in the command find? Why do
> we need this change (I never have any problem in fc3 with command find)?
> Should I always use -noleaf option with find in fc4? or, in wchich cases the
> option -noleaf should be used and in which cases -noleaf should not be used?
Well-known issue with FC4 kernels.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/162418
Paul.
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