X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_RW,TW_WX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: Uu383n6swBCEN1G9up0WSnxbvN8fCPmk Message-ID: <4D27D66F.8030201@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:13:51 -0500 From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Strange fstatat / stat behavour on directories causing tar "file changed as we read it" error References: <3501944D149644D394474781054F5E98 AT multiplay DOT co DOT uk> <4D2783A3 DOT 5000008 AT redhat DOT com> <4D27C896 DOT 30202 AT cygwin DOT com> <265F601A437E4A03BE8C665BE7470721 AT multiplay DOT co DOT uk> In-Reply-To: <265F601A437E4A03BE8C665BE7470721@multiplay.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 1/7/2011 9:39 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: > Here it takes about 2 - 5mins for what ever is causing the 0 size after a > find to start to happen. Prior to that after the find all dirs show 8192 for > size in an ls. Ah, that's interesting. I see no such time-lag here. $ ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 lhall None 0 2011-01-07 22:06 testdir $ find testdir >/dev/null $ ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 lhall None 0 2011-01-07 22:06 testdir But of course I'm working in an empty directory. I'm also going to guess that you're mounting your directory with the 'noacl' option. If that's true, you might try removing that option to see if it makes any difference. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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