Bug 164191 - warning about hard links in /proc when running find
Summary: warning about hard links in /proc when running find
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 162418
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Alexander Viro
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-07-25 20:42 UTC by John Griffiths
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-07-28 07:40:31 UTC
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Description John Griffiths 2005-07-25 20:42:51 UTC
Description of problem:
When I run find on / , I get the following warning:

find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: this may be a bug in your
filesystem driver.  Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.  Earlier
results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 (/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko)
findutils-4.2.20-1

How reproducible:
everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run find / -name test (or and name just to limit output)
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Get warning:
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: this may be a bug in your
filesystem driver.  Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.  Earlier
results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.


Expected results:
Would not expect warning.

Additional info:
Here is the root mount info:
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-07-28 07:40:31 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 162418 ***


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