This is useful for duplicating trees that contain hardlinks: we keep
track of potential hardlinks and try to reproduce them within the
destination tree. (We do not hardlink between source and destination!).
This is useful for trees like ostree images which heavily use hardlinks
and which are otherwise exploded into separate copies of all files when
we duplicate the trees.
Some chattrs only work sensible if you set them right after opening a
file for create (think: FS_NOCOW_FL). Others only work when they are
applied when the file is fully written (think: FS_IMMUTABLE_FL). Let's
take that into account when copying files and applying a chattr to them.
Previously, when we'd copy an individual file we'd synthesize a
user.crtime_usec xattr with the source's creation time if we can
determine it. As the creation/birth time was until recently not
queriable form userspace this effectively just propagated the same xattr
on the source to the same xattr on the destination. However, current
kernels now allow to query the birthtime using statx() and we do make
use of that now. Which means that suddenly we started synthesizing these
xattrs much more regularly.
Doing this actually does make sense, but only in very few cases:
not for the typical regular files we copy, but certainly when dealing
with disk images. Hence, let's keep this kind of propagation, but let's
make it a flag and default to off. Then turn it on whenever we deal with
disk images, and leave it off otherwise.
This is particularly relevant as overlayfs combining a real fs, and a
tmpfs on top will result in EOPNOTSUPP when it is attempted to open a
file with xattrs for writing, as tmpfs does not support xattrs, and
hence the copy-up cannot work. Hence, let's avoid synthesizing this
needlessly, to increase compat with overlayfs.
This adds two optional functions that may be passed to the various copy
functions. One is invoked whenever we start copying a new file object,
the other while we copy file payload in each loop iteration.
When the caller passes one or both they can get notifications about copy
progress, for example to log where things are.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Let's always write "1 << 0", "1 << 1" and so on, except where we need
more than 31 flag bits, where we write "UINT64(1) << 0", and so on to force
64bit values.
We do this checks as protection against bind mount cycles on the same
file system. However, the check wasn't really effective for that, as
it would only detect cycles A → B → A this way. By using
fs_is_mount_point() we'll also detect cycles A → A.
Also, while we are at it, make these file system boundary checks
optional. This is not used anywhere, but might be eventually...
Most importantly though add a longer blurb explanation the why.
Optionally, when we copy between fds with simple read/write, let's
return any remaining data we already read into the buffer if write
fails. This is useful to allow callers to use the read data otherwise,
perhaps implementing a different fallback for copying.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
This changes the file copy logic of machined to set the UID/GID of all
copied files to 0 if the host and container do not share the same user
namespace.
Fixes: #4078
This adds a unified "copy_flags" parameter to all copy_xyz() function
calls, replacing the various boolean flags so far used. This should make
many invocations more readable as it is clear what behaviour is
precisely requested. This also prepares ground for adding support for
more modes later on.
Fall back to a normal copy operation when the backing file system isn't btrfs,
and hence doesn't support cheap snapshotting. Of course, this will be slow, but
given that the execution is asynchronous now, this should be OK.
Fixes: #1308
off_t is a really weird type as it is usually 64bit these days (at least
in sane programs), but could theoretically be 32bit. We don't support
off_t as 32bit builds though, but still constantly deal with safely
converting from off_t to other types and back for no point.
Hence, never use the type anymore. Always use uint64_t instead. This has
various benefits, including that we can expose these values directly as
D-Bus properties, and also that the values parse the same in all cases.
Yu Watanabe