Hello List. I think i found a bug in the ext3 filesystem. It deals with dereferencing symlinks. I have installed a fresh openSUSE 10.2 on an ext3 filesystem. After that i wanted to include some selfmade LaTeX-classes by creating a symlink within /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex to the directory containing the class. texhash lists the new link within /usr/share/texmf/ls-R. However the complete content of the classes directory is missing. File and directory permissions are OK. I suspect that the dereferencing of symlinks to the target directory does not work on ext3. To check that i tested an older SuSE Installation with reiserfs, which works as expected. Another test i made was creating an ext3 fs, xfs and reiserfs on a loopback device. Within this test filesystem that i mounted temporarily to /mnt i created a symlink to /usr. Issuing the command ls -LRa, which is exactly what texhash is using and should dereference the link to /usr did not recursively list the contents of /usr on the ext3 filesystem whereas it did on the reiserfs and xfs.
The test system was a dual opteron (x86_64) as well as a mobile Athlon (i386) system running openSUSE 10.2. Any ideas. Can anyone confirm that this is a bug? Any solutions. Who should be informed in the case this is a real bug? Regards Jens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
