Strange cygdrive problem

Steve Woolet wooletsp@gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 13:47:00 GMT 2010


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 26 11:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jan 25 22:56, Steve Woolet wrote:
>>> Avi Schwartz <cygwin <at> cfftechnologies.com> writes:
>>> [...]
>>> I am seeing something very similar to Avi's problem, only mine is with AFS
>>> mounted drives.  I have three AFS mounted drives that show up under /cygdrive as
>>> r/, y/, and z/ in addition to the normal c/.  
>>> [...]
>>>    $ ls /cygdrive/r
>>>    ls: cannot open directory /cygdrive/r: Not a directory
>>>
>>> I updated my cygwin1.dll to the latest snapshot, but that did not help.
>>> [...]
>>> $ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/r
>>> Device Type        : 7
>>> Characteristics    : 10
>>> Volume Name        : <AFS>
>>> Serial Number      : 1234
>>> Max Filenamelength : 255
>>> Filesystemname     : <AFS>
>>> Flags              : 4003
>>>   FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH  : TRUE
>>>   FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES   : TRUE
>>>   FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK        : FALSE
>>>   FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS        : FALSE
>>>   FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION       : FALSE
>>>   FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS          : FALSE
>>>   FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES  : FALSE
>>>   FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE
>>>   FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
>>>   FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED   : FALSE
>>>   FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS    : FALSE
>>>   FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION    : FALSE
>>>   FILE_NAMED_STREAMS          : FALSE
>>>   FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME       : FALSE
>>>   FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE  : FALSE
>>>   FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS  : FALSE
>>>
>>> I can supply an strace file, if that is needed.
>> That would be a start.  Just an strace of an ls /cygdrive/r for now.
>>
>> Looks like YA filesystem not handling an FileBasicInformation request
>> correctly.  Any problem if I send you pointers to Cygwin test DLLs via
>> PM?
> 
> Oh, btw., is that using the OpenAFS client?  Does anybody know if a
> publically available AFS server for testing purposes exists somewhere?
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 

The ls.trace is attached.

The afs drives were mounted and mapped to Windows drive letters using 
IBM's AFS Client for Windows.

Steve
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