Re: [AVFS] ~/.avfs and symlinks

Hi,

On 2006-01-31 16:41, Peter wrote:
> Don't know if this is even a bug, but avfs has problems when a symlinked
> directory is used. For example,
> 
> ~/backup --> /mnt/backup
> 
> cd ~/backup
> ls ~/.avfs/$PWD/file.tar# causes an error
> 
> /home/peter/.avfs//home/peter/backup/file.tar#: No such file or directory
> 
> While readlink will work on a first level dir, if a file was in
> ~/backup/january readlink will fail since january is not symlinked.
> 
> This comes up more frequently when using a dir manager like ROX which
> won't care how it gets to a directory or whether or not it's linked.
> 
> Don't know if there's an elegant solution to this, but thought I'd
> bring it up for consideration.

Thanks. I didn't used the fuse code yet so I didn't noticed this but I
will take a look into this problem ASAP.

Best Regards,

Ralf Hoffmann

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