Find hardlinks to a file

[Chris Holcombe]

My apologies if this has already been asked. I feel that I've done a
sufficient amount of Google search homework. I'm working with Gluster
(http://www.gluster.org/) and they have a directory called xattrop
where they store links to files that need to be healed. When I stat
the file I can see that there's 2 or 3 hard links to the file. I
can't seem to find a way in code or with an xfs_* utility to find the
path of those hard links. Does anyone know how to do this or if it's
even possible? From looking through the XFS documentation I don't
really see a way to do it without a find /mount_point -num <number>
brute force method. btrfs has a utility called:

btrfs inspect-internal inode-resolve [-v] <inode> <path>
Resolves an <inode> in subvolume <path> to all filesystem
paths.

I'd like to build an equivalent tool in C for XFS if it's possible.

Thanks,
Chris

[Dave Chinner]

Post by Chris Holcombe
My apologies if this has already been asked. I feel that I've done a
sufficient amount of Google search homework. I'm working with Gluster
(http://www.gluster.org/) and they have a directory called xattrop
where they store links to files that need to be healed. When I stat
the file I can see that there's 2 or 3 hard links to the file. I
can't seem to find a way in code or with an xfs_* utility to find the
path of those hard links. Does anyone know how to do this or if it's
even possible? From looking through the XFS documentation I don't
really see a way to do it without a find /mount_point -num <number>
btrfs inspect-internal inode-resolve [-v] <inode> <path>
Resolves an <inode> in subvolume <path> to all filesystem
paths.
I'd like to build an equivalent tool in C for XFS if it's possible.

You need help from the filesystem, both in terms of the on-disk
format and the kernel code needed to push that information back out
to userspace. Indeed, this is the functionality we need for reverse
inode->path lookups:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.xfs.general/27772

(parent pointers, for those that don't want to follow the link)

Right now it's state is in limbo. We have a more recent design,
but since SGI has dropped off the edge of the world, nobody is
working on it.

It's on my radar along with reverse mapping btrees for filesystem
block to inode lookups so that we can do all of this sort of stuff
easily without needing to walk the entire filesystem to find the
forward pointers to objects....

Cheers,

Dave.

[Chris Holcombe]

So let me ask you this. Is it possible to transform an inode number
into a path name with xfs? That's basically the crux of my problem.

Post by Dave Chinner

Post by Chris Holcombe
My apologies if this has already been asked. I feel that I've done a
sufficient amount of Google search homework. I'm working with Gluster
(http://www.gluster.org/) and they have a directory called xattrop
where they store links to files that need to be healed. When I stat
the file I can see that there's 2 or 3 hard links to the file. I
can't seem to find a way in code or with an xfs_* utility to find the
path of those hard links. Does anyone know how to do this or if it's
even possible? From looking through the XFS documentation I don't
really see a way to do it without a find /mount_point -num <number>
btrfs inspect-internal inode-resolve [-v] <inode> <path>
Resolves an <inode> in subvolume <path> to all filesystem
paths.
I'd like to build an equivalent tool in C for XFS if it's possible.

You need help from the filesystem, both in terms of the on-disk
format and the kernel code needed to push that information back out
to userspace. Indeed, this is the functionality we need for reverse
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.xfs.general/27772
(parent pointers, for those that don't want to follow the link)
Right now it's state is in limbo. We have a more recent design,
but since SGI has dropped off the edge of the world, nobody is
working on it.
It's on my radar along with reverse mapping btrees for filesystem
block to inode lookups so that we can do all of this sort of stuff
easily without needing to walk the entire filesystem to find the
forward pointers to objects....
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner

[Dave Chinner]

Post by Chris Holcombe
So let me ask you this. Is it possible to transform an inode number
into a path name with xfs? That's basically the crux of my problem.

$ man xfs_ncheck