On 17.11.2010, at 20:00, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 17/11/2010 18:38 Markus Gebert said the following: >> >> On 17.11.2010, at 11:49, George Mamalakis wrote: >> >>> Hi everbody, >>> >>> from http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS I understand that chflags are supported by >>> zfs. But if I have a file with sappnd on a zfs filesystem, I am unable to >>> execute a command like this: >>> >>> # touch lili >>> # chflags sappnd lili >>> # ls -lrto lili >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 5 Nov 17 12:38 lili >>> # echo "lala" >> lili >>> # echo "lala" >> lili >>> -su: echo: write error: Operation not permitted >>> >>> So, the first time it worked, but it stops working on any consequent time >>> (when the file is no more empty). >>> I found a bug report on: >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=149495 >> >> And: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=151082&cat=kern >> >> >>> where a patch is suggested. Nevertheless, even though my sources are newer >>> than the suggested patch, my source tree does not contain it. >>> Do we know anything more about it? >> >> The fix was committed to CURRENT on Oct 8th (r213634). The commit message >> talks about MFC after a week, however to me it looks like the fix hasn't >> made it to 8-STABLE yet. >> >> Also, there seems to be a related commit r213673 which essentially reverts >> r213634 and has a more general approach to handling ioflags with zfs. This >> commit was on Oct 10th, again 1 week MFC grace period, again not in 8-STABLE >> yet, at least to my knowlegde. >> >> Maybe MFC was simply forgotten, maybe there's a good reason to delay it, I >> don't know. We're using my patch (the one mentioned in the PRs) for now and >> append-only works as intended. Applying the changes in r213673 to 8-STABLE >> might be an option too, if you're considering patching to get the append >> flag working. >> >> Anyway, hopefully one of these fixes gets MFCd to 8-STABLE soon. >> > > Good analysis, but did you forget to CC the committer(s)? > It is known that sometimes the committers do need a gentle (or not so) > nudging :-)
Right :-) mm@ and pjd@ now CCed. Markus _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
