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RE: Mount of VSS volumes (//?/GLOBALROOT/...) does not work
- From: "Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron at pdinc dot us>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:26:21 -0400
- Subject: RE: Mount of VSS volumes (//?/GLOBALROOT/...) does not work
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com [mailto:cygwin-owner at
> cygwin dot com] On Behalf Of Christian Franke
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 10:34
> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> Subject: Re: Mount of VSS volumes (//?/GLOBALROOT/...) does not work
>
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Nov 7 15:41, Christian Franke wrote:
> > >
> > > The access to the path works, except the access to the
> root dir of
> > > the volume. It appears as a regular file which apparently
> provides
> > > raw read access to the partition:
> > >
> > > $ ls -l '//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1'
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 ... 0 Dec 1 2006
> //?/.../HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1 $
> > > xxd '//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1'
> > > 0000000: eb52 904e 5446 5320 2020 2000 0208 0000 .R.NTFS .....
> > >
> >
> > The windows path handling code in Cygwin doesn't recognize
> the path as
> > the path to a drive's root dir. The path normalization
> code removes
> > all trailing backslashes. When accessing a root dir,
> Windows requires
> > a trailing backslash. When accessing the volume without
> the trailing
> > backslash, it's opened for raw access.
> >
>
> Now I understand where the problem is. Thanks.
>
>
> > This is still a highly unusual situation from a POSIXy
> point of view.
> > I'm not sure I want to slow down Cygwin for this any further. It
Could this be explained please?
> > seems the ability to mount a shadow volume as a dos drive is
> > sufficient for this kind of problem, isn't it?
> >
>
> I agree.
The dosdev.exe is no longer downloadable from Microsoft.
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