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On Nov 23 10:22, John Cooper wrote:
> I'm not sure if it helps at all, but I've just been told this about our
> NetApp filer:
>  "It's using a Network Appliance proprietery OS called DataOntap, this
> is Unix based."

Can you please make an experiment?  Just call `ls -i' a couple of times
on the same set of files and directories, and compare the inode numbers
returned.  Probably the inode numbers differ between runs.

I'm going to add a special case for this file system.  Please give the
next developer's snapshot from http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try.


Corinna

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