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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Symlinks' device numbers differ from regular files'
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:54:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101118235423.GC12925@toke.dk> (raw)

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Hi

I am having a problem with my btrfs partitions: symlinks are reported to 
have different device numbers than directories and regular files, even 
though they are on the same partition. This causes my backup software to 
mess up backing up the symlinks.

An illustrative example:

$ touch tmp; ln -s tmp tmp2; stat tmp tmp2
  File: `tmp'
  Size: 0         	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
Device: 15h/21d	Inode: 984027      Links: 1
--- snip ---
  File: `tmp2' -> `tmp'
  Size: 3         	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   symbolic link
Device: 13h/19d	Inode: 984028      Links: 1
--- snip ---

$ uname -r
2.6.35-ck

I'm not using subvolumes, or any fancy features of btrfs, really. I'm 
running Arch Linux.

Is this normal? And if not, how do I fix it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Regards,
-Toke Høiland-Jørgensen

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             reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-18 23:54 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2010-11-19  2:05 ` Symlinks' device numbers differ from regular files' Li Zefan

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