From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 37076 invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2018 18:45:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 36849 invoked by uid 89); 17 Dec 2018 18:45:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=8:un, 8:=c3=a4, 8:be, November?= X-HELO: mout.kundenserver.de Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (HELO mout.kundenserver.de) (212.227.17.24) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:45:30 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.15] ([149.172.203.221]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue108 [212.227.15.145]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MG9Xu-1geR1H2SOC-00GX9l for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:45:27 +0100 Subject: Re: symbolic links on Paragon Linux File systems To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1823593702.5343751.1545034298027.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1823593702.5343751.1545034298027@mail.yahoo.com> <20181217093428.GQ28727@calimero.vinschen.de> <20181217165741.GB28727@calimero.vinschen.de> From: Stefan Baur Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <1d8d7c85-c88e-2404-db25-cc095f966247@baur-itcs.de> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:47:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181217165741.GB28727@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hd31mb43g1VeNeOj0C6bQ7hGDSGT3KcdW" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-12/txt/msg00157.txt.bz2 --hd31mb43g1VeNeOj0C6bQ7hGDSGT3KcdW Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="ilACvIPKsiYPpA53GY12oVTQ7M5x6fkW2"; protected-headers="v1" From: Stefan Baur To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <1d8d7c85-c88e-2404-db25-cc095f966247@baur-itcs.de> Subject: Re: symbolic links on Paragon Linux File systems References: <1823593702.5343751.1545034298027.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1823593702.5343751.1545034298027@mail.yahoo.com> <20181217093428.GQ28727@calimero.vinschen.de> <20181217165741.GB28727@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20181217165741.GB28727@calimero.vinschen.de> --ilACvIPKsiYPpA53GY12oVTQ7M5x6fkW2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: de-DE Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1629 Am 17.12.18 um 17:57 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > As a sidenote, the OSS project Ext2Fsd handles symlinks transparently > via standard Windows functions. With "CYGWIN=3Dwinsymlinks:native" you > can generate real ext4 symlinks transparently. Even the good old Cygwin > symlink works on Cygwin without programmatic intervention, albeit those > won't be recognized as symlinks by Linux of course. Unfortunately > Ext2Fsd didn't learn to handle ext4 with the 64bit FS option set yet. > 64bit is default for quite some time. Hmm, their website says: > *Ext2Fsd 0.69 released !* > November 2nd, 2017 >=20 > WARNINGS: >=20 > Don't use Ext2Fsd 0.68 or earlier versions with latest Ubuntu or > Debian systems. Ext2Fsd 0.68 cannot process EXT4 with 64-BIT mode > enabled, then it could corrupt your data. Very sorry for this > disaster issue, I'm working on an improvement. >=20 > Features implemented and bugfix: >=20 > 1, FIXME: superblock corruption of EXT4 volumes with 64BIT mode enabl= ed=20 > 2, FIXME: possible corruption by race conditions in buffer-head reape= ring > 3, FIXME: possible deadlock issues (when flushing) caused by BCB locks > 4, FIXME: miscellaneous minor updates of Ext2Fsd code base Sooo ... if the warning only applies for 0.68 and earlier versions, while the current version is 0.69, as the headline says, I'd be tempted to believe they fixed that issue. -Stefan --=20 BAUR-ITCS UG (haftungsbeschr=C3=A4nkt) Gesch=C3=A4ftsf=C3=BChrer: Stefan Baur Eichen=C3=A4ckerweg 10, 89081 Ulm | Registergericht Ulm, HRB 724364 Fon/Fax 0731 40 34 66-36/-35 | USt-IdNr.: DE268653243 --ilACvIPKsiYPpA53GY12oVTQ7M5x6fkW2-- --hd31mb43g1VeNeOj0C6bQ7hGDSGT3KcdW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-length: 473 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJcF+7GAAoJEG7d9BjNvlEZQeMH/0u2L5GKKA/xTUVOsYMoG1Fu Jpt0GMpk6Rje5KiqZ1w2AwMUwnOk/QPeeif06YtVPMVwE0h3tHOuB9ioGRjLbw+v B3rBsCbDEbWhLTjMbsogwntNeX/9N+yAHYZEgSJf1TczVOFXwh9r+UPxWAn8vbSC HjY2VKN/RCVQgvP673/cwekJWoYTnW+/pddkE+qvrq9KSXoiUGD8PAHYe7edHx7b C94ArrrivHfxkuhXCfZMOFIKBL5M4Hsc6vxiC1F5UMdeeI8PdhNYQKRuu81B6XiF a38PrzLdIpiANm8Lzp6uDJiBHUYPm0rSjTR6O4UjNUJYqzZsZaVs6Rla0eAplKU= =2jds -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hd31mb43g1VeNeOj0C6bQ7hGDSGT3KcdW--