Hello,
how about permissions for the root user in an aufs filesystem? Should they
not be the same like on a local filesystem or an NFS filesystem with
no_root_squash set? I am using aufs over NFS to get a writable NFSROOT
filesystem, and as root, I cannot create a file in a directory which is
not
Hello Christoph,
"Christoph Pleger":
> how about permissions for the root user in an aufs filesystem? Should they
> not be the same like on a local filesystem or an NFS filesystem with
> no_root_squash set? I am using aufs over NFS to get a writable NFSROOT
> filesystem, and as root, I cannot cre
Hello,
I think we encountered a similar issue, in our case with the /var/log/*
directories (and sometimes /var/cache/man). I don't think it's a real
permission issue as we get "Operation not supported" and not "Permission
denied".
I noticed that it happens if the rw branch doesn't contain the
di
"Christoph Pleger":
> I am exporting as readonly from the NFS server and I am using aufs on the
> client to make files and directories writable there. To achieve this, I
> changed/added some things in the initrd nfs script: Instead of mounting
> the NFS filesystem to /root, the script mounts it to
Hello,
> The "mounts" attachment is empty.
A strange behaviour I did not know about before: scp
root@nfs_client:/proc/mounts indeed reproducably creates an empty file on
my workstation. First creating a local copy and then scp-ing it worked, I
attached the result.
> But I can guess your /roroot
"Christoph Pleger":
> What I do not understand here, is why the NFS server does not allow the
> operation, though it does if the directory is exported read-write (I
> tested that).
Exported with rw,no_root_squash? And root user on NFS client could not
create a file? Hmm, that is strange. I will c
