How to turn on the find's -noleadf option?

[Wong Kwok-hon]

On 9/29/05, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 23:24 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> > On 9/29/05, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 15:43 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > When I perform command "find / -name abc.txt -print" message "find:
> > > > WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: this may be a bug in your
> > > > filesystem driver.  Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.
> > > > Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should
> > > > have been searched." displayed.
> > > >
> > > > Would someone tell me how to turn it on ?
> > >
> > > er.. like this?
> > > find / -name abc.txt -print -noleaf ?
> > >
> > >  try
> > > $man find
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I tried but no help in man page.  I didn't need to do this when I am
> > in fedora Core 3. Is the problem is caused by the yum upgrade from FC3
> > to FC4 ?
>       -noleaf
> Do not optimize by assuming that directories contain 2 fewer
> subdirectories  than  their  hard link  count.   This  option  is
> needed when searching filesystems that do not follow the Unix
> directory-link convention, such as CD-ROM or MS-DOS filesystems or AFS
> volume  mount  points. Each  directory  on  a  normal Unix filesystem
> has at least 2 hard links: its name and its â entry.  Additionally, its
> subdirectories (if any) each have  a  â   entry  linked  to  that
> directory.   When  find  is examining a directory, after it has statted
> 2 fewer subdirectories than the directoryâs link count, it knows that
> the rest of the entries in  the  directory  are non-directories  (â
> files  in  the directory tree).  If only the filesâ names need to be
> examined, there is no need to stat them; this gives a significant
> increase in search speed.
>
>
> >
> >
> > Wong Kwok Hon
> >
>

Then any fix method can do ?