Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 04:08:50 -0700 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: Shadi Fazelian <sh_fazelian@yahoo.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: please hellllllllllllp me! Message-ID: <200005231108.EAA13140@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: <20000522153349.Z28097@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000522025901.T28097@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000522155431.21317A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> <20000522153349.Z28097@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On May 22, 3:33pm, Alfred Perlstein wrote: } Subject: Re: please hellllllllllllp me! } * David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> [000522 14:30] wrote: } > dscheidt@shell-2 ~ 536$ ls -al | grep .snapshot } > dscheidt@shell-2 ~ 537$ ls -al .snapshot } > total 60 } > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 4096 May 22 15:01 . } > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 15:51 .. } > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 14:58 hourly.0 } > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 13:52 hourly.1 } > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 13:00 hourly.2 } > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 10:52 hourly.3 } > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 19 16:34 nightly.0 } > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 19 16:34 nightly.1 } > dscheidt@shell-2 ~ 538$ } > } > doesn't count then? This is a directory NFS-mounted from a NetApp. The } > .snapshot directory is a lifesaver, and support cost cutter. } } If the netapp doesn't honor readdir requests properly then it's } breaking unix semantics. } } Netapp is broken, there's no reason to intentionally hide this } directory from readdir. It would be really annoying to have to exclude all of these every time you wanted to roll a tarball of a directory tree. Also, a lot of the time you probably won't want find or other recursive things to wander into these directories. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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