On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 09:43:40PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: >Corinna Vinschen writes: >> Netapp inode numbers are not reliable and thus the number of links isn't >> either. There's a check in Cygwin which is the result of the early >> Cygwin 1.7 development. It does not report the number of hardlinks >> and it fakes the inode numbers on netapp filesystems. > >Ah OK, that explains the wierd output from fstat. Is there a windows >program to query that information, perhaps? > >> The file system returns STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER when calling >> NtQueryVolumeInformationFile(FileFsFullSizeInformation) for some >> reason. If you're set up to build your own Cygwin DLL, we could >> perform two or three really quick tests to find out if there's a way >> to workaround this issue in Cygwin. > >I am not yet but might be interested, is there a description somewhere >of what that takes? I would need to use Git (is it ready yet?) since >CVS gets blocked by the firewall and the various scrapers using CVSweb >don't really work that well.
git isn't ready yet unfortunately. Can't you just download a recent snapshot? That should be good enough. FWIW, CVS is blocked at my work (ironically, it's NetApp) too but I use a ssh tunnel to work around that. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
