Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/11/28/10:36:56
On Nov 28 15:53, Martin Koeppe wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> >>And I ask why such an assumption is necessary at all.
> >>In the Windows API there is a function GetVolumeInformation
> >>which is supported from Win95 on and reports FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS
> >>when inode numbers are valid.
> >
> >Nope. Object IDs are not inode numbers. I suggest reading on object
> >IDs in MSDN.
>
> Thanks, and sorry for not being thorough enough before writing the
> mail.
>
> >>Is there a reason for not using this? GetVolumeInformation is already
> >>used in several other places within cygwin.
> >
> >Samba reports FS_PERSISTENT_ACLS, but the way has_acls() is treated
> >in case of CYGWIN=nosmbntsec (the default) disables its usage. I think
> >I found a bug though, which might explain inconsistent behaviour. I'm
> >looking into it.
> >
> >But using FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS is definitely incorrect. And, just
> >as a side note, the Samba version I'm using (3.0.20a) does not report
> >that it supports FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS. The flags value returned
> >from GetVolumeInformation:
> >
> > 11 == 0xb == FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH
> > | FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES
> > | FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS
>
> Ok. I now wrote and executed a small program which shows the inode
> numbers returned by GetFileInformationByHandle() to see which inode
> numbers are definitely non-sense and which could be real ones.
> (Because of GetVolumePathName() used for brevity, this program only
> runs on >=W2K.)
>
> On a W2K box, I tested several file systems, local and remote.
> Here are the results:
>
> ino_h ino_l link fsname file
> 2883584 82115 1 NTFS C:\local_harddisk\testfile
> 4161736 2070 2 NTFS T:\samba3_share\testfile
> 6881280 20695 1 NTFS P:\w2k3_share\testfile
> 0 -465645560 1 FAT32 W:\win98_share\testfile1
> 0 -467871288 1 FAT32 W:\win98_share\testfile2
> 0 568 1 CDFS E:\local_cdrom\testfile1
> 0 516 1 CDFS E:\local_cdrom\testfile2
> 0 258336 1 FAT G:\local_usbstick\testfile1
> 0 254880 1 FAT G:\local_usbstick\testfile2
>
> (samba reports the device number as low part of the inode number, and
> the real ext2 fs inode number as high part, which is bad for
> interix/sfu, as it only shows the low part as inode number. I just
> reported this as samba bug 3287, see
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3287 )
>
> For the Win98 share, one gets random numbers on each call. The other
> numbers are constant, at least between reboots. (I didn't yet test
> after reboot.)
Yes, that matches our observations. I've applied a fix already.
Corinna
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