RE: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied

["Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth dot Nellis at acs-inc dot com>]

> From: Eric Blake
> On 01/11/2011 06:50 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> > knellis@COBQDPPJ1 ~
> > $ cp /cygdrive/q/knellis/xyz .
> > cp: skipping file `/cygdrive/q/knellis/xyz', as it was replaced while
> being copied
> 
> cp is different than tar.   Downgrading tar won't help cp complaining
> about unstable inodes.
> 
> Have you tried the latest cygwin1.dll snapshot, which has some patches
> to work around at least one additional broken file system beyond what
> 1.7.7 supported?  And if that still causes the warning for you, then we
> need more details about your file system (/usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo
> /cygdrive/q).

Curious why you put me on the tar path when my problem was originally
stated as being with cp. Regardless, the latest snapshot does not
change the result. Here are the current results, and "cygcheck -svr"
output is attached.

knellis@COBQDPPJ1 ~
$ cp /cygdrive/q/knellis/xyz .
cp: skipping file `/cygdrive/q/knellis/xyz', as it was replaced while being copied

knellis@COBQDPPJ1 ~
$ uname -r
1.7.8s(0.234/5/3)

knellis@COBQDPPJ1 ~
$ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/q
Device Type        : 7
Characteristics    : 10
Volume Name        : <home>
Serial Number      : 125567530
Max Filenamelength : 128
Filesystemname     : <NTFS>
Flags              : 2b
  FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH  : TRUE
  FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES   : TRUE
  FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK        : FALSE
  FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS        : TRUE
  FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION       : FALSE
  FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS          : TRUE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES  : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
  FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED   : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS    : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION    : FALSE
  FILE_NAMED_STREAMS          : FALSE
  FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME       : FALSE
  FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE  : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS  : FALSE

knellis@COBQDPPJ1 ~
$

--Ken Nellis

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