Re: du missing files on vfat

[James Youngman]

[ CC += bug-findutils; bug-coreutils moved to BCC ]

On Dec 13, 2007 9:44 AM, Wolfram Kresse <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:15:00 +0100, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The underlying code that changed was in lib/fts.c.
> > - du, chmod, chown, chgrp, and the new chcon use fts.
>
> OK, but now I'm getting confused: It seems that the slocate utility has the 
> exact same problem (using 3.1-1ubuntu3 of slocate), and from an Ubuntu bug 
> report I learned it also uses fts.
> However, it seems there are two (concurrent?) versions of fts, one in glibc, 
> and one in coreutils. I am wondering what exactly I have to do to make 
> slocate work reliably again on large non-inode file systems?

Well, the denizens of the coreutils mailing list may not know how to
fix slocate.

As far as GNU locate (not slocate) goes, in 4.3.x it uses gnulib's
fts().   In fact, it uses find to build the database, and you
indicated that find does not suffer from this problem.     If slocate
doesn't work for you, you could always use locate instead.

James.