restic/internal/fs/deviceid_unix.go

//go:build !windows
// +build !windows

package fs

import (
	"os"
	"syscall"

	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/errors"
)

// DeviceID extracts the device ID from an os.FileInfo object by casting it
// to syscall.Stat_t
func DeviceID(fi os.FileInfo) (deviceID uint64, err error) {
	if fi == nil {
		return 0, errors.New("unable to determine device: fi is nil")
	}

	if fi.Sys() == nil {
		return 0, errors.New("unable to determine device: fi.Sys() is nil")
	}

	if st, ok := fi.Sys().(*syscall.Stat_t); ok {
		// st.Dev is uint32 on Darwin and uint64 on Linux. Just cast
		// everything to uint64.
		return uint64(st.Dev), nil
	}

	return 0, errors.New("Could not cast to syscall.Stat_t")
}