IMFS: new trouble.

Jake Janovetz janovetz at uiuc.edu
Wed Nov 22 18:46:48 UTC 2000


I had this problem when I first updated, and now I'm trying to
think what the heck I did to fix it...  Make sure that you
provide fstat() in your directory handlers and file handlers.
This solved one disappearing problem I was having, but I don't
remember if it solved this one.

    Jake


On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:26:40PM +0300, Sergei Organov wrote:
> Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> >   + mount() bug reported by Jake fixed.
> 
> After an upgrade to this snapshot, the behavior of mount seem to be even more
> surprising. If I just create '/log' directory then everything is OK: it
> appears in 'ls' output of FTP. Now I mount my own file-system on the '/log', -
> mount succeeds, but directory '/log' disappears from the output of 'ls'
> command! I guess I do something wrong in my 'mount_me' handler, but then
> 'mount()' should fail, but it doesn't. Moreover, I still can download files
> located on my file-system using FTP by issuing 'get /log/filename' that shows
> that my file-system is mounted and operational, but somehow hidden along with
> its mounting point.
> 
> Also, issuing
> 
> ls /dev
> 
> in FTP still doesn't work (empty list returned), while
> 
> cd /dev
> ls
> 
> does output list of devices.
> 
> 
> Seems that something is still broken in the IMFS :-(
> 
> BR,
> Sergei Organov.



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