sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > Hello Joe, > > Joe Krahn: >> There is a bug in aufs where fstat() returns a st_size value of zero. >> This causes cpio to fail on symlinks because st_size is supposed to be >> the symlink string length. It also causes 'du' to return usage sizes of >> zero unless the "--apparent" option is used. >> >> I am using aufs 20081208 in SLAX. I can send more details if needed. > > What is the type of your branch filesystems, and aufs configuration? > Show me your /proc/mounts and /sys/fs/aufs/config. > > > J. R. Okajima
Strange... I just checked again for this behavior after rebooting, and everything is working correctly. At least one other SLAX user has seen this behavior. If nobody else has seen this, it could be some interactions with SLAX's POSIX overlay or squashfs code. I was using an XFS filesystem for my persistent writeable directory. What can I check the next time I see this behavior? My aufs is compiled with AUFS_DEBUG=y. Does the debug info all go to 'dmesg'? For now, here is my mount and config info: /proc/mounts: rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root /mnt/live ext2 rw,errors=continue 0 0 proc /mnt/live/proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/loop22 /mnt/live/lib/modules/2.6.27.8-jmk/kernel/drivers squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/live/mnt/sda1 vfat rw,noatime,nodiratime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,check=s,quiet 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/live/mnt/sda2 xfs rw,noatime,nodiratime,noquota 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/live/memory xfs rw,noatime,nodiratime,noquota 0 0 tmpfs /mnt/live/memory/xino tmpfs rw 0 0 aufs / aufs rw,si=1cda2645,xino=/mnt/live/memory/xino/.aufs.xino,nowarn_perm 0 0 /dev/loop0 /mnt/live/memory/images/001-core.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop2 /mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop3 /mnt/live/memory/images/003-desktop.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop4 /mnt/live/memory/images/004-kdeapps.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop5 /mnt/live/memory/images/005-koffice.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop6 /mnt/live/memory/images/006-devel.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop7 /mnt/live/memory/images/007-linux-2.6.27.8-jmk-modules.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop8 /mnt/live/memory/images/adobereader-8.1.3-i486-1sl.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop9 /mnt/live/memory/images/cryptsetup-1.0.5-i486-4.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop10 /mnt/live/memory/images/ddrescue-1.7-i486.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop11 /mnt/live/memory/images/firefox3-flash10-jmk.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop12 /mnt/live/memory/images/font-misc-misc-1.0.0-noarch-3.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop13 /mnt/live/memory/images/gftp-2.0.18-i486-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop14 /mnt/live/memory/images/gimp-2.4.7-i486-1sl.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop15 /mnt/live/memory/images/icewm-1.2.36-i486-1sl.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop16 /mnt/live/memory/images/imake-1.0.2-i486-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop17 /mnt/live/memory/images/lshw-b.02.13.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop18 /mnt/live/memory/images/ndiswrapper1.53-slx609.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop19 /mnt/live/memory/images/nmap-4.60.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop20 /mnt/live/memory/images/ntp-4.2.4p0-i486-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop21 /mnt/live/memory/images/printmodule-s6.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop23 /mnt/live/memory/images/python-2.5.2-i486-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop24 /mnt/live/memory/images/python-bindings-part1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop25 /mnt/live/memory/images/skype-2.0.0.68-i686.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop26 /mnt/live/memory/images/smartmontools-5.38-i486-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop27 /mnt/live/memory/images/subversion-1.4.6-i486-2.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop28 /mnt/live/memory/images/sudo-1.6.8p12-i486-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop29 /mnt/live/memory/images/testdisk-6.9-1.i386.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop30 /mnt/live/memory/images/twm-1.0.4-i486-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop31 /mnt/live/memory/images/vim-7.1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop32 /mnt/live/memory/images/vim-gvim-7.1.330-i486-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop33 /mnt/live/memory/images/wicd-1.5.6-noarch-2.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop34 /mnt/live/memory/images/wlassistant-0-5-7.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop35 /mnt/live/memory/images/wpa-supplicant-0.5.10.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop36 /mnt/live/memory/images/wxcam-0-9-8.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop37 /mnt/live/memory/images/wxwidgets-2-8-9.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop38 /mnt/live/memory/images/xclock-1.0.3-i486-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop39 /mnt/live/memory/images/xfce-4.4.2-i486-4.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop40 /mnt/live/memory/images/xfce4-battery-plugin-0.5.1-i486-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop41 /mnt/live/memory/images/xfontsel-1.0.2-i486-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop42 /mnt/live/memory/images/xload-1.0.2-i486-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop43 /mnt/live/memory/images/xlsatoms-1.0.1-i486-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop44 /mnt/live/memory/images/xlsfonts-1.0.2-i486-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/loop45 /mnt/live/memory/images/xorg-cf-files-1.0.2-noarch-1.lzm squashfs ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/sda1 /boot vfat rw,noatime,nodiratime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,check=s,quiet 0 0 /dev/sda1 /slax vfat rw,noatime,nodiratime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,check=s,quiet 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,data=ordered 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat rw,noatime,nodiratime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,check=s,quiet 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 xfs rw,noatime,nodiratime,noquota 0 0 /dev/sda2 /home xfs rw,noatime,nodiratime,noquota 0 0 /dev/sda2 /root xfs rw,noatime,nodiratime,noquota 0 0 /dev/sda2 /usr/local xfs rw,noatime,nodiratime,noquota 0 0 /dev/sda2 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