This adds a folder option "CopyOwnershipFromParent" which, when set,
makes Syncthing attempt to retain the owner/group information when
syncing files. Specifically, at the finisher stage we look at the parent
dir to get owner/group and then attempt a Lchown call on the temp file.
For this to succeed Syncthing must be running with the appropriate
permissions. On Linux this is CAP_FOWNER, which can be granted by the
service manager on startup or set on the binary in the filesystem. Other
operating systems do other things, but often it's not required to run as
full "root". On Windows this patch does nothing - ownership works
differently there and is generally less of a deal, as permissions are
inherited as ACLs anyway.
There are unit tests on the Lchown functionality, which requires the
above permissions to run. There is also a unit test on the folder which
uses the fake filesystem and hence does not need special permissions.
* lib/fs: Add fakefs
This adds a new fake filesystem type. It's described rather extensively
in fakefs.go, but the main point is that it's for testing: when you want
to spin up a Syncthing and have a terabyte or two of random files that
can be synced somewhere, or an inifitely large filesystem to sync files
into.
It has pseudorandom properties such that data read from one fakefs can
be written into another fakefs and read back and it will look
consistent, without any of the data actually being stored.
To use:
<folder id="default" path="whatever" ...>
<filesystemType>fake</filesystemType>
This will create an empty fake filesystem. You can also specify that it
should be prefilled with files:
<folder id="default" path="whatever?size=2000000" ...>
<filesystemType>fake</filesystemType>
This will create a filesystem filled with 2TB of random data that can be
scanned and synced. There are more options, see fakefs.go.
Prefilled data is based on a deterministic seed, so you can index the
data and restart Syncthing and the index is still correct for all the
stored data.
Given that we've taken on the resposibility of maintaining this forked
package I've added it to the Syncthing organization. We still vendor it
like an external package, because it's convenient to keep it as a fork
of upstream to easier merge and file pull requests towards them.
When scanner.Walk detects a change, it now returns the new file info as well as the old file info. It also finds deleted and ignored files while scanning.
Also directory deletions are now always committed to db after their children to prevent temporary failure on remote due to non-empty directory.
This removes a number of timing related things, leaving just the total
test timeout now bumped to one minute. Normally we get the filesystem
events within a second or so, so this doesn't affect the test time in
the successfull case. If we don't actually get the events we expect
within a minute I think we are legitimately in "failed" territory.
GitHub-Pull-Request: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/4715
LGTM: imsodin, AudriusButkevicius
It turns out that ZFS doesn't do any normalization when storing files,
but does do normalization "as part of any comparison process".
In practice, this seems to mean that if you LStat a normalized filename,
ZFS will return the FileInfo for the un-normalized version of that
filename.
This meant that our test to see whether a separate file with a
normalized version of the filename already exists was failing, as we
were detecting the same file.
The fix is to use os.SameFile, to see whether we're getting the same
FileInfo from the normalized and un-normalized versions of the same
filename.
One complication is that ZFS also seems to apply its magic to os.Rename,
meaning that we can't use it to rename an un-normalized file to its
normalized filename. Instead we have to move via a temporary object. If
the move to the temporary object fails, that's OK, we can skip it and
move on. If the move from the temporary object fails however, I'm not
sure of the best approach: the current one is to leave the temporary
file name as-is, and get Syncthing to syncronize it, so at least we
don't lose the file. I'm not sure if there are any implications of this
however.
As part of reworking normalizePath, I spotted that it appeared to be
returning the wrong thing: the doc and the surrounding code expecting it
to return the normalized filename, but it was returning the
un-normalized one. I fixed this, but it seems suspicious that, if the
previous behaviour was incorrect, noone ever ran afoul of it. Maybe all
filesystems will do some searching and give you a normalized filename if
you request an unnormalized one.
As part of this, I found that TestNormalization was broken: it was
passing, when in fact one of the files it should have verified was
present was missing. Maybe this was related to the above issue with
normalizePath's return value, I'm not sure. Fixed en route.
Kindly tested by @khinsen on the forum, and it appears to work.
GitHub-Pull-Request: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/4646
These files always have the symlink bit set, because they are reparse
points. Nonetheless they are not symlinks, and Lstat reports a size for
them. We use this fact to disambiguate, and hope fervently that nothing
else matches this description so it comes back to bite us...
GitHub-Pull-Request: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/4622
Just because there are a ton of people struggling to set env vars.
Perhaps this should live in advanced settings, and perhaps we should have a button to view the log.
GitHub-Pull-Request: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/4604
LGTM: calmh, imsodin
This is step one of a hundred fifty on the path to case insensitivity.
It brings in the basic case folding mechanism and adds it to the
mtimefs, as this is something outside the fileset that touches stuff in
the database based on name. No effort to convert or handle existing
entries when the insensitivity is changed, I don't think we need it...
Useless by itself but includes tests and will reduce the review load
along the way.
GitHub-Pull-Request: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/4521
The folder already knew how to stop properly, but the fs.Walk() didn't
and can potentially take a very long time. This adds context support to
Walk and the underlying scanning stuff, and passes in an appropriate
context from above. The stop channel in model.folder is replaced with a
context for this purpose.
To test I added an infiniteFS that represents a large amount of data
(not actually infinite, but close) and verify that walking it is
properly stopped. For that to be implemented smoothly I moved out the
Walk function to it's own type, as typically the implementer of a new
filesystem type might not need or want to reimplement Walk.
It's somewhat tricky to test that this actually works properly on the
actual sendReceiveFolder and so on, as those are started from inside the
model and the filesystem isn't easily pluggable etc. Instead I've tested
that part manually by adding a huge folder and verifying that pause,
resume and reconfig do the right things by looking at debug output.
GitHub-Pull-Request: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/4117
One more step on the path of the great refactoring. Touches rwfolder a
little bit since it uses the Lstat from fs as well, but mostly this is
just on the scanner as rwfolder is scheduled for a later refactor.
There are a couple of usages of fs.DefaultFilesystem that will in the
end become a filesystem injected from the top, but that comes later.
GitHub-Pull-Request: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/4070
LGTM: AudriusButkevicius, imsodin
After this change,
- Symlinks on Windows are always unsupported. Sorry.
- Symlinks are always enabled on other platforms. They are just a small
file like anything else. There is no need to special case them. If you
don't want to sync some symlinks, ignore them.
- The protocol doesn't differentiate between different "types" of
symlinks. If that distinction ever does become relevant the individual
devices can figure it out by looking at the destination when they
create the link.
It's backwards compatible in that all the old symlink types are still
understood to be symlinks, and the new SYMLINK type is equivalent to the
old SYMLINK_UNKNOWN which was always a valid way to do it.
GitHub-Pull-Request: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/3962
LGTM: AudriusButkevicius
