On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 18:39 +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:49:22PM +0000, Jim Wight wrote: > > What are the requirements for files to be hashified? I thought it was > > simply identical content. If so, what might be the reason for the > > following behaviour? > > > > # cp /tmp/testfile leave/usr/local > > # cp /tmp/testfile bscw2/usr/local > > # vserver leave hashify; vserver bscw2 hashify > > # ls -l */usr/local/testfile > > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 227 Oct 30 15:14 bscw2/usr/local/testfile > > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 227 Oct 30 15:14 leave/usr/local/testfile > > # find */usr/local -name testfile -printf "%p %i\n" > > bscw2/usr/local/testfile 1150163 > > leave/usr/local/testfile 1200007 > > > I would have expected 3 links and same inode. testfile is an ASCII file. > > yep, that I would expect too, but what does the > following give you? > > stat leave/usr/local/testfile > stat bscw2/usr/local/testfile # stat leave/usr/local/testfile File: `leave/usr/local/testfile' Size: 227 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: fe00h/65024d Inode: 1200007 Links: 2 Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2008-10-30 15:14:38.000000000 +0000 Modify: 2008-10-30 15:14:38.000000000 +0000 Change: 2008-10-30 15:15:31.000000000 +0000 # stat bscw2/usr/local/testfile File: `bscw2/usr/local/testfile' Size: 227 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: fe00h/65024d Inode: 1150163 Links: 2 Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2008-10-30 15:14:44.000000000 +0000 Modify: 2008-10-30 15:14:44.000000000 +0000 Change: 2008-10-30 15:16:01.000000000 +0000 The ed package was recently updated in the two vservers. After rehashification the new binaries were linked as expected. However, if I # cp leave/bin/ed leave/bin/anothered # vserver leave hashify should the link count for leave/bin/ed not incease by 1? The outcome is the same as with testfile: # ls -l leave/bin/anothered -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40636 Nov 1 10:06 leave/bin/anothered Jim