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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: Re: Problem with find in MSDOS file system
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.190922.12657@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Keywords: DOS FS, linux, find
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <1992Aug28.155134.24843@midway.uchicago.edu> <3473@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 19:09:22 GMT
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- In article <3473@ra.nrl.navy.mil> eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) writes:
- > If the i_links field is not accurate, then find screws up.
- > I do not know if this is the problem with the msdos fs, but it is fairly
- > easy to try.
-
- Yes, the MS-DOS FS has this property. MS-DOS does not know about links and
- determining the link count of a directory on the fly can be pretty expensive,
- because one has to scan the entire directory for subdirectories.
-
- I'll add this for the next MS-DOS FS release - maybe with an option to turn
- it off if it slows the system too much.
-
- - Werner
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