From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: Does "find" work with CDROMs ? Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 16:18:07 GMT
In article <992@esun179.gdc.com> costa@gdc.com (Jeff Costa) writes:
>Running "find" on my Sony CDU31A drive produces no activity and no output.
>Does it work for anyone else ?
If the disc does not have the Rock Ridge extensions, then the link
count is incorrect in the inode structures. find uses the link count to
determine when it should stop looking for files. This is actually an
optimization which can be turned off with the -noleaf switch.
-Eric
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