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<damo22>`rsync -alDx src/* dst` from a real disk to a disk image ext2 partition in linux does not work in hurd

<damo22>the symlinks are all broken

<damo22>something about rsyncing symlinks is b0rked under hurd

<damo22>how do i resymlink every symlink

<damo22>youpi: something that linux does when rsyncing symlinks is broken under hurd

<damo22>for ext2fs

<damo22>all the symlinks point nowhere

<youpi>you mean you rsync with linux and then mount with hurd?

<damo22>yes

<youpi>but when building symlinks by hand on liunx it works?

<damo22>im not sure about the last point

<damo22>but im sure that when i use rsync -alDx it creates symlinks that look okay in linux but point nowhere in hurd

<damo22>x= one file system only, D = --devices --specials l= symlinks as symlinks -a a bunch of flags

<damo22>i can delete them in hurd and i get a strange error about zero size

<damo22>in mach_print

<damo22>i'll do it again and get the erro

<damo22>ext2fs: /dev/hd0s1: ext2_free_blocks: freeing blocks not in datazone - block =19324420204, count=1

<damo22>also block 3223151

<damo22>the partition is 5G in size

<youpi>that's very odd indeed

<youpi>I don't think it's a partition size error

<youpi>it'd be useful to make sure by creating the symlink by hand with ln -s that it happens too

<damo22>ok

<youpi>and then look with debug2fs how different the inodes are between a hurd-created and a linux-created symlink

<damo22>ok ln -s has the same effect

<damo22>when done from linux

<damo22>lrwxrwxrwx hurdsymlink -> hurd

<damo22>lrwxrwxrwx linuxsymlink

<damo22>$ stat linuxsymlink

<damo22> File: linuxsymlinkstat: cannot read symbolic link 'linuxsymlink' input/output error

<damo22>Inode: 17

<damo22> http://paste.debian.net/plain/1117241

<damo22>its got ACL and Xattr

<damo22>not sure why those got copied over, but interestingly the block count is 8

<damo22>instead of 0

<damo22>I set the ACL to 0 and removed the Xattr for selinux manually with debugfs but the symlink is still pointing nowhere

<damo22>its the blockcount = 8 that breaks it

<damo22>i set it to 0 and it fixed the symlink

<damo22>ext2fs must be assuming when blockcount != 0 there are blocks to read

<damo22>even for a symlink

<damo22>but if the link is present it can tell from that surely?

<youpi>gnu_srs: oh, when I open vnc port :8 of your host for mahler, I am getting a gdm prompt instead of the mahler VM console

<youpi>(nothing urging, just noticed that and better fix it before I need to use it :) )

<gnu_srs1>youpi: It was lightdm running mate. Sorry for the problem, that image is now using another vnc.

<heth>hi. what's the performance penalty compared to mainline?

<heth>linux kernel that is

<Gooberpatrol66>heth: there's no multicore yet

<heth>Gooberpatrol66, I see. what's the culpit?

<heth>scheduler?

<Gooberpatrol66>support on intel processors isn't enabled in the kernel

<Gooberpatrol66>someone's working on it https://github.com/AlmuHS/GNUMach_SMP

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