From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) Subject: Re: Problem with find in MSDOS file system Date: 30 Aug 1992 19:09:22 GMT
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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