Re: [Gluster-devel] Problems with symlinks at storage/posix

[Filipe Maia]

You're welcome.
Yes it fixes all the problems I had.

Filipe

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 20:30, Anand Avati <address@hidden> wrote:
> Just applied the patch, Thanks! Does this patch solve your problem
> completely or is there something else?
>
> avati
>
> 2009/1/16 Filipe Maia <address@hidden>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried running unify to replace my current NFS setup for my home
>> directory but through unify I only saw 333 files on my home, compared
>> to a couple more than a 1000 using NFS.
>>
>> After much digging I think i know the problem. In my home directory
>> there is a link that points to a non-existing file (dangling symlink).
>> In the posix_setdents the correct symlink is created but then the
>> chmod right after it fails and setdents exists without creating any of
>> the others entries on the namespace.
>> The chmod fails because it tries to chmod the file pointed by the
>> symlink, which does not exist (it fails with errno=2).
>>
>> I did some more tests and this can occur even if the symlink points
>> somewhere as long as the symlink is created before the destination
>> point.
>>
>> Attached is a patch proposal that seemed to work in my system. The
>> patch is against 2.0.0rc1.
>>
>> Filipe
>>
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