From: eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: Problem with find in MSDOS file system Date: 28 Aug 1992 17:45:00 GMT
In article <1992Aug28.155134.24843@midway.uchicago.edu> ace3@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In general, when find reaches the 3rd level of subdirectory nesting in a
>DOS file system, it will only list the files in the first such
>sub-directory.
>
>I'd like to help figure out what's going on, but I'm not sure if the
>problem is in find, or the fs/msdos stuff.
Try:
find -noleaf
I ran across this with the CDROM filesystem. Find assumes that the i_links
field is accurate, and uses this to decide how many subdirectories it needs
to examine. 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.
-Eric