Re: Directory tree traversal problem

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 07/21/16 02:31, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 07/21/16 06:16, Colin Percival wrote:
>> On 07/19/16 23:40, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>> Ever since I upgraded my home system to:
>>>
>>> % freebsd-version -ku
>>> 11.0-BETA1
>>> 11.0-BETA1
>>> [...]
>>> Jul 19 19:58:26 lucid-nonsense backupsnap-zfs.sh[41680]: tarsnap: .:
>>> Unable to continue traversing directory tree: Not a directory
>>
>> That's strange.  [..].
> 
> lucid-nonsense:....zfs/snapshot/20160721-1011:# stat -f "%N: %HT%SY"
> /empty /empty/.zfs /empty/.zfs/snapshot
> /empty/.zfs/snapshot/20160721-1011 . ..
> /empty: Directory
> /empty/.zfs: Directory
> /empty/.zfs/snapshot: Directory
> /empty/.zfs/snapshot/20160721-1011: Directory
> .: Directory
> stat: ..: stat: Not a directory
> 
> That's unexpected.  I'll ask the guys on freebsd-fs@ about that.

For the benefit of the list (and google searches): It sounds like this was
a short-lived bug in FreeBSD, fixed a few days ago:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2016-July/023586.html

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Colin Percival
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