# Infinite filesystem recursion detected **URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/infinite-filesystem-recursion-detected/15285 **Category:** Support **Created:** [July 8, 2020, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/infinite-filesystem-recursion-detected/15285 "2020-07-08T20:04:12Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![rahrah](https://forum.syncthing.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9e8a1a/32.png) [@rahrah](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/rahrah) #### Post date: [July 8, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/infinite-filesystem-recursion-detected/15285/5 "2020-07-08T23:52:09Z")
Yup, you are bang on the money! Ran this under cygwin: ``` find . -type d -exec c:/windows/system32/fsutil file queryfileid {} \; |sort |uniq -c 24 File ID is 0xffffe78e24786a20 2 File ID is 0xffffe78e24ad89e0 1 File ID is 0xffffe78e2663d290 2 File ID is 0xffffe78e2686e5a0 1 File ID is 0xffffe78e268f9310 1 File ID is 0xffffe78e26c17010 1 File ID is 0xffffe78e27036010 1 File ID is 0xffffe78e282e8010 7 File ID is 0xffffe78e28d49010 18 File ID is 0xffffe78e2b0985a0 9 File ID is 0xffffe78e2b6e8010 2 File ID is 0xffffe78e2b780720 2 File ID is 0xffffe78e2b783010 2 File ID is 0xffffe78e2bf54010 ``` Many duplicates! Not only that, but the results were different with each invocation. The ids also differed with files on each invocation, too (`-type f`). Neither were true for files/dirs on native ntfs. Don’t suppose there’s another way to do it? Or, perhaps, **a switch to turn this code off including completely ignoring Windows junctions?** It blows virtualbox shared file systems completely. Just seen: [https://forum.syncthing.net/t/option-to-follow-directory-junctions-symbolic-links/14750](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/option-to-follow-directory-junctions-symbolic-links/14750) Do not mean any disrespect to the amazing work @xarx put into this. Thanks for your help with, and your time spent in giving me a handle on this. ===Rich --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/infinite-filesystem-recursion-detected/15285)._