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Re: "tar --one-file-system" accesses remote file systems


Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
From: Larry Hall (Cygwin)

Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
This problem and a proposed solution was mentioned in an earlier e'mail
(http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-09/msg00839.html).
Ah, yes, the mounted CIFS share is reported as a FAT file system*.
That's it I expect. Going straight to the code, in fhandler_disk_file.cc, here's some code from fhandler_base::fstat_helper():

   /* Enforce namehash as inode number on untrusted file systems. */
   if (pc.isgood_inode (nFileIndex))
     buf->st_ino = (__ino64_t) nFileIndex;
   else
     buf->st_ino = get_namehash ();

One of the things that isgood_inode() checks for is that it's not a FAT drive. In case it is, you end up with a faked hash inode.

Thanks for the diagnosis. I'm curious about something. The message I reference above also mentioned an issue with "st_dev". It seems to imply that correcting the "st_dev" to use the volume serial number could resolve this issue. What is your opinion on that theory?

Given that the message you found refers to code that's a good 10 years old, I think it's safe to assume that things here have changed. ;-) And they have. I found no "42" anywhere in the code that is related to st_dev. So that "oddness" is now gone.

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