[ale] "find" issues on Suse 10.1/

[Greg Freemyer]

On 8/14/06, Sonali Parikh <sonali at vijedi.net> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>  I am running Suse 10.1 x86-64 with software Raid 5 on my server. When
> running find in /, I get the following error:
>
>  strauss:/ # find . -iname foo
>  find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for .: 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.
>  strauss:/ #
>
>  This only happen in the / directory. In any other directory, find works
> fine. Filesystem: reiserfs.
>
>  Thanks
>  Sonali

I'm not sure if you had a question, but find having issues on SuSE is
known and has been reported on the SuSE mailing list.

IIRC it relates to some of the dynamic filesystem actions that SuSE
does.  ie. /dev, /sys, and /proc are all dynanic and don't exist on
disk anywhere.  Also /media has contents that come and go.

I tried find on my SuSE 10.1 from root today and I get the same error
you're getting.

What I don't know is if Novell (SuSE) has any plans to fix it in a
future release.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century