CYGWIN inode over Samba share not constructed from IndexNumber

Jeremy Allison jra@samba.org
Mon May 14 17:33:00 GMT 2012


On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:53:49PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> On May 11 14:15, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 07:58:43PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On May 11 12:56, starlight.2012q2@binnacle.cx wrote:
> > > > /********************************************************************
> > > >  Create a 64 bit FileIndex. If the file is on the same device as
> > > >  the root of the share, just return the 64-bit inode. If it isn't,
> > > >  mangle as we used to do.
> > > > ********************************************************************/
> > > > 
> > > > uint64_t get_FileIndex(connection_struct *conn, const SMB_STRUCT_STAT *psbuf)
> > > > {
> > > >    uint64_t file_index;
> > > >    if (conn->base_share_dev == psbuf->st_ex_dev) {
> > > >       return (uint64_t)psbuf->st_ex_ino;
> > > >    }
> > > >    file_index = ((psbuf->st_ex_ino) & UINT32_MAX); /* FileIndexLow */
> > > >    file_index |= ((uint64_t)((psbuf->st_ex_dev) & UINT32_MAX)) << 32; /* FileIndexHigh */
> > > >    return file_index;
> > > > }
> > > 
> > > Which Samba version introduced this behaviour?  Originally, way back
> > > when Samba 3.0.28 was new, the inode numbers were always mangled to be
> > > 64 bit numbers, AFAIK.  The code in Cygwin which doesn't trust 32 bit
> > > inode numbers on remote drives is there for ages, at least since 2007.
> > > 
> > > Fortunately we have an interface which allows to fetch the Samba version
> > > number from the server since Samba 3.0.28a.  So, if we know which Samba
> > > version started to return the real 32 bit inode number, we can adapt.
> > > [...]
> > > inline bool
> > > path_conv::isgood_inode (__ino64_t ino) const
> > > {
> > >   /* We can't trust remote inode numbers of only 32 bit.  That means,
> > >      remote NT4 NTFS, as well as shares of Samba version < 3.0.
> > >      The known exception are SFU NFS shares, which return the valid 32 bit
> > >      inode number from the remote file system unchanged. */
> > >   return hasgood_inode () && (ino > UINT32_MAX || !isremote () || fs_is_nfs ());
> > > }
> > 
> > The get_FileIndex() code has been there since at least 3.6.x, but
> > I'll try and track down when it was first introduced.
> 
> That would be nice.  For now, assuming the get_FileIndex has been
> introduced with 3.6.0, I'd go with this new implementation, stretched
> out and better comments for readability:

get_FileIndex() is in 3.5.x (current code). It was added in
commit 920ffe49290cacd30d9bc582c1c3fee38308c260, which went
in on Thu May 20 11:36:47 2010, which means it went into
Samba 3.5.4.

Jeremy.

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