Hello
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 21:45, Aaron D.Ball wrote:
> When I use the kernel-based NFS server to export directories on
> ReiserFS that have the append-only attribute set, I can't access the
> files from the client machines at all: for example, "ls" returns
> "operation not permitted". Is this a known bug? Is there a good
> workaround?
>
It looks like the problem is not in reiserfs, but in nfsd.
fs/nfsd/vfs.c:nfsd_open() refuses to open append only files.
/* Disallow access to files with the append-only bit set or
* with mandatory locking enabled
*/
err = nfserr_perm;
if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_ISMNDLK(inode))
goto out;
> I'm running up-to-date Debian sid with Linux 2.6.10 compiled from the
> stock Debian kernel-source package. Everything works fine in other
> contexts, such as
>
> * direct access on the server
> * access via Samba
> * access via the userspace NFS server (which I'm using as a workaround
> for now)
>
> I'd really like to get things working with the kernel-based server so I
> can have locks. Abandoning extended attributes would mean I have to
> monitor certain files and directories for changes and check them after
> the fact rather than simply blocking all the changes I don't want. Is
> there hope? Am I just doing something dumb?
>
>
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