faked inode numbers on network drives

[Martin Koeppe]

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.)

Based on these results, I could think of the following:

if (running on nt) {
     if (local drive) {
        return inode number by GetFileInformationByHandle();
     } else if (remote drive) {
        if (FS=="NTFS") {
           return inode number by GetFileInformationByHandle();
        } else {
           return faked inode number;
        }
     } else {
        return faked inode number;
     }
}


Martin



#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500
#include <stdio.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <windows.h>

void printerror()
{
   DWORD msgid = GetLastError();
   _TCHAR msg[1024];
   FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM, NULL, msgid, 0, msg, sizeof(msg), NULL);
   _tprintf(_T("Could not open file (error %d): %s\n"), msgid, msg);
}

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
   _tprintf(_T("     ino_h       ino_l  link    fsname  file\n"));

   for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
     HANDLE fh = CreateFile(
       argv[i],
       GENERIC_READ,
       FILE_SHARE_READ,
       NULL,
       OPEN_EXISTING,
       FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,
       NULL
     );
     if (fh == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) { printerror(); continue; }

     BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION fi;
     memset(&fi, 0, sizeof(fi));

     BOOL res = GetFileInformationByHandle(fh, &fi);
     if (!res) { printerror(); continue;	}

     _TCHAR volpath[1024];
     res = GetVolumePathName( argv[i], volpath, sizeof(volpath) );
     if (!res) { printerror(); continue;	}

     _TCHAR fsname[100];
     res = GetVolumeInformation( volpath, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, fsname, sizeof(fsname) );
     if (!res) { printerror(); continue;	}

     _tprintf(_T("%10d  %10d  %4d  %8s  %s\n"),
       fi.nFileIndexHigh, fi.nFileIndexLow, fi.nNumberOfLinks, fsname, argv[i]);

     CloseHandle(fh);
   }
   return 0;
}


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