On 1/3/07, Jens Nie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
Sounds like a bug to me. You can obviously open a Suse bug report,
but you might be better off asking on the LKML linux-fsdevel list.
Described at http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-fsdevel
I think you can just send an e-mail to <[email protected]>.
The LKML lists all use a reply all philosophy unlike here and accept
non-subscriber e-mails so you should not have to subscribe unless you
feel the urge.
Greg
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