[ale] "find" issues on Suse 10.1/

Sonali Parikh sonali at vijedi.net
Tue Aug 15 10:51:46 EDT 2006


Thanx Greg, I shall look around more.

Sonali

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 8/14/06, Sonali Parikh <sonali at vijedi.net> wrote:
>   
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I am running Suse 10.1 x86-64 with software Raid 5 on my server. When
>> running find in /, I get the following error:
>>
>>  strauss:/ # find . -iname foo
>>  find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for .: this may be a bug in your
>> filesystem driver.  Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.  Earlier
>> results may have failed to include directories that should have been
>> searched.
>>  strauss:/ #
>>
>>  This only happen in the / directory. In any other directory, find works
>> fine. Filesystem: reiserfs.
>>
>>  Thanks
>>  Sonali
>>     
>
> I'm not sure if you had a question, but find having issues on SuSE is
> known and has been reported on the SuSE mailing list.
>
> IIRC it relates to some of the dynamic filesystem actions that SuSE
> does.  ie. /dev, /sys, and /proc are all dynanic and don't exist on
> disk anywhere.  Also /media has contents that come and go.
>
> I tried find on my SuSE 10.1 from root today and I get the same error
> you're getting.
>
> What I don't know is if Novell (SuSE) has any plans to fix it in a
> future release.
>
> Greg
>   
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