virtfs hard links orphans

santrix

• December 27, 2013 03:49

I'm having a brain fart regarding ls - my understanding was the ls -l 2nd column gives the number of links to the file I see this, which seems to indicate only one hard link TO each file - kind of makes sense. -rw------- 1 root root 4194304000 Jan 26 2012 /home/virtfs/user1/usr/tmpDSK -rw------- 1 root root 4194304000 Jan 26 2012 /home/virtfs/user2/usr/tmpDSK -rw------- 1 root root 4194304000 Jan 26 2012 /home/virtfs/user3/usr/tmpDSK -rw------- 1 root root 4194304000 Jan 26 2012 /home/virtfs/user4/usr/tmpDSK -rw------- 1 root root 4194304000 Jan 26 2012 /home/virtfs/user5/usr/tmpDSK However, the above all share the same inode number on the server (Centos 5.9 Cloudlinux). So when I look at the 'source file' - i.e. with the same inode number: -rw------- 1 root root 4194304000 Jan 26 2012 /usr/tmpDSK It shows again only 1 link to it. Shouldn't it show 6 ?

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 27, 2013 13:22

  Hello :) cPanel uses bind mounts, not hard links, to set up the user's files under /home/virtfs. Thank you.

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