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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 21:20:14 +0100
From: Norbert =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gr=FCn?= <gnor-spam AT x-mail DOT net>
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Subject: Find Artifact on FAT32 Filesystems
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Dear Madam or Sir!

Updatedb triggers find which reports inaccessible files like 
pagefile.sys
16 times if they reside on FAT32.

Neither FAT nor NTFS 5.x exhibit this behaviour.

Maybe an artifact of FAT32 directory structure.

Currently there is no *NIX box with FAT32 mounted at hand.

I don't expect updatedb on Knoppix or other Live-CD *NICES since these
usually don't write to disk.

So no cross-checking possible.

Since Cygwin uses the Windows (XP Pro SP2) filesystem drivers, a *NIX 
may
exhibit a different behaviour.

The problem is minor unless Mr. Bad Guy may exploit it.

Kind Regards

Norbert Grün (gnor-spam AT x-mail DOT net) not overflooded with spam from
newsgroup posts :-)





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