From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 4:11:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 954D837B977 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 04:11:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com (imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.198]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA04236; Tue, 23 May 2000 04:08:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA63278; Tue, 23 May 2000 04:08:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA13140; Tue, 23 May 2000 04:08:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <200005231108.EAA13140@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 04:08:50 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20000522153349.Z28097@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000522025901.T28097@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000522153349.Z28097@fw.wintelcom.net> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(5) 10/07/98) To: Alfred Perlstein , David Scheidt Subject: Re: please hellllllllllllp me! Cc: Shadi Fazelian , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On May 22, 3:33pm, Alfred Perlstein wrote: } Subject: Re: please hellllllllllllp me! } * David Scheidt [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