Why does df fail to stat CIFS shares?
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Aug 27 17:04:00 GMT 2014
On Aug 27 16:28, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > > -v, please. What means "obviously" here? Did you ask Netapp?
>
> No, I've tried all combinations of parameters to the open calls to
> absolutely no avail. I then started to look at what the VolumeInformation
> call is supposed to be doing and decided that this might have a better
> chance of producing a workaround.
>
> > > The FileFsFullSizeInformation class is *old*, it has been introduced
> > > with Windows 2000. Did you test all combinations I asked you for? Can
> > > you provide detailed results? It might help to find a working combination.
>
> All combinations you listed produced absolutely the same behaviour than
> before: the open suceeds and the VolumeInfo call fails. I've tried a few
> other combinations that are forbidden according to MSDN and promptly had the
> open call fail, so I think I did this correctly...
>
> While searching the net I've found some notes saying that the only classes
> confirmed working everywhere didn't include FileFsFullSizeInformation. True
> or not, that's what pushed me to rip it out.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/openxdk/patches/_discuss/thread/4b412944/4ba5/attachment/undocumented.txt
>
> > Btw., one other hare-brained idea would be if the Netapp FS has a
> > somewhat different idea of the size of FILE_FS_FULL_SIZE_INFORMATION,
> > maybe due to a misunderstanding in alignment. What you could try is
> > to make full_fsi a pointer:
> >
> > PFILE_FS_FULL_SIZE_INFORMATION full_fsi =
> > (PFILE_FS_FULL_SIZE_INFORMATION)
> > alloca (2 * sizeof (FILE_FS_FULL_SIZE_INFORMATION));
> >
> > and then change all "full_fsi." to "full_fsi->"
Make that:
PFILE_FS_FULL_SIZE_INFORMATION pfull_fsi =
(PFILE_FS_FULL_SIZE_INFORMATION)
alloca (2 * sizeof (FILE_FS_FULL_SIZE_INFORMATION));
FILE_FS_FULL_SIZE_INFORMATION &full_fsi = *pfull_fsi;
Then you don't have to change subsequent code.
> Tomorrow...
Ok.
Corinna
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