[PVFS-developers] symlink problems with pre3 release

[Robert Latham]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 02:59:45PM -0500, David S Metheny wrote:

> This happens because the symlink still points to the full path specified
> when it was created. The cat command resolves to
> /mnt/pvfs/symlink-test/hellow.world.txt instead of
> /mnt/cluster/symlink-test/hello.world.txt
>  
> $ ls -la /mnt/cluster/symlink-test/
> total 9
> drwxrwxr-x    1 user   user   4096 Sep 17 14:36 .
> drwxrwxrwx    1 user   user   4096 Sep 17 14:36 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 user   user   51 Sep 17 14:36 hello.world.symlink ->
> /mnt/pvfs/symlink-test/hello.world.txt
> -rw-rw-r--    1 user   user   12 Sep 17 14:36 hello.world.txt
> 
> Any ideas?

It's been a long time since I played with this on an ext2 file system,
but isn't this the difference between relative and absolute symbolic?
i.e. what you are describing is correct behavior for absolute symlinks
on any file system, right?

as I'm sure you know, pvfs does not support hard links, which i
imagine would not exhibit this behavior.

==rob

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Rob Latham
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