Re: SV: Ext3 destroying ownerships and permissions

2001-05-09 Thread Andreas Dilger
Johan Ekenberg writes: > Corrupted permissions have been reported mostly with files needing > global write permissions (www-counters writable for nobody, etc) which > have lost their special permissions. Usually they've been "reset" > according to the normal umask (ie. getting permissions 644). On

Re: SV: Ext3 destroying ownerships and permissions

2001-05-09 Thread Dave Kleikamp
This is a WAG, but: 1. Did you build ext3 as a module? 2. If so, are you running on a kernel that was built before applying the ext3 patch and configuring? If the answers are yes, the inode cache may be too small to contain the ext3 in-memory inode, and the ext3 code is overwriting the inode b

SV: Ext3 destroying ownerships and permissions

2001-05-09 Thread Johan Ekenberg
> > A few weeks ago we upgraded 9 large webservers from ext2 to > ext3. Since then we've seen very strange behavior on several > of the machines. Permissions of files are repeatedly changed > at random occasions. Several times, ownership of files have > been totally mangled. Several users have lo

Re: possible endian bugs in vfat

2001-05-09 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:04:20PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Wed, May 09, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > > Patch is for 2.4.4-ac6, but I believe that it applies to Linus > > tree too. If it works for you, feel free to forward it to Linus > > and/or Alan and/or Al. But you should verify also file

Re: Ext3 destroying ownerships and permissions

2001-05-09 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:56:26PM -0400, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:29:28PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > I'm not sure where to start, here --- this has never been reported > > before and I don't know of anything in the VFS that could be so > > specific in i

Re: possible endian bugs in vfat

2001-05-09 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, May 09, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > Patch is for 2.4.4-ac6, but I believe that it applies to Linus > tree too. If it works for you, feel free to forward it to Linus > and/or Alan and/or Al. But you should verify also file creation > before it - vfat code looks ok to me, but who knows... I tr

Re: Ext3 destroying ownerships and permissions

2001-05-09 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:29:28PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > I'm not sure where to start, here --- this has never been reported > before and I don't know of anything in the VFS that could be so > specific in its corruption. Well, the on-disk inode looks like: struct ext2_inode {

Re: Ext3 destroying ownerships and permissions

2001-05-09 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:50:34PM +0200, Johan Ekenberg wrote: > > A few weeks ago we upgraded 9 large webservers from ext2 to ext3. Since then we've >seen very strange behavior on several of the machines. Permissions of files are >repeatedly changed at random occasions. Several times, o

Ext3 destroying ownerships and permissions

2001-05-09 Thread Johan Ekenberg
Hi! A few weeks ago we upgraded 9 large webservers from ext2 to ext3. Since then we've seen very strange behavior on several of the machines. Permissions of files are repeatedly changed at random occasions. Several times, ownership of files have been totally mangled. Several users have logged

Re: Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) release 0.3.1 available

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Best
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:50:15PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:40:25PM -0500, Steve Best wrote: >> Release 0.3.1 of JFS was made available today. >> >> Drop 31 on May 9, 2001 (jfs-0.3.1.tar.gz) includes fixes to the >> file system and utilities. >> >> For more deta

Re: possible endian bugs in vfat

2001-05-09 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 9 May 01 at 18:40, Olaf Hering wrote: > > Now we have to ged rid of the warnings and test it on other archs. After looking at msdos_dir_entry definition I'm surprised that it works, it should generate unaligned trap, as src contains odd address... > --- linux_ppc.orig/fs/fat/dir.c Tue Sep

Re: Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) release 0.3.1 available

2001-05-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Steve, On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:40:25PM -0500, Steve Best wrote: > Release 0.3.1 of JFS was made available today. > > Drop 31 on May 9, 2001 (jfs-0.3.1.tar.gz) includes fixes to the > file system and utilities. > > For more details about the problems fixed, please see the README. would it

Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) release 0.3.1 available

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Best
Release 0.3.1 of JFS was made available today. Drop 31 on May 9, 2001 (jfs-0.3.1.tar.gz) includes fixes to the file system and utilities. For more details about the problems fixed, please see the README. Steve JFS for Linux http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jfs - To uns

Re: possible endian bugs in vfat

2001-05-09 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, May 09, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On 9 May 01 at 15:30, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Wed, May 09, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > > At Wed, 9 May 2001 09:42:59 +0200, > > > Olaf Hering wrote: > > > > the vfat driver doesnt work properly with 2.4.2 and 2.4.5-pre1. The > > > > directory entries appear

Re: possible endian bugs in vfat

2001-05-09 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 9 May 01 at 15:30, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Wed, May 09, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > At Wed, 9 May 2001 09:42:59 +0200, > > Olaf Hering wrote: > > > the vfat driver doesnt work properly with 2.4.2 and 2.4.5-pre1. The > > > directory entries appear as "???" when the entry is handled as > > > un

Re: possible endian bugs in vfat

2001-05-09 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, May 09, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Wed, 9 May 2001 09:42:59 +0200, > Olaf Hering wrote: > > the vfat driver doesnt work properly with 2.4.2 and 2.4.5-pre1. The > > directory entries appear as "???" when the entry is handled as > > unicode(?). this happens on floppy and zip disks on a P

Re: possible endian bugs in vfat

2001-05-09 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Wed, 9 May 2001 09:42:59 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > the vfat driver doesnt work properly with 2.4.2 and 2.4.5-pre1. The > directory entries appear as "???" when the entry is handled as > unicode(?). this happens on floppy and zip disks on a PowerMac. > > I have one floppy with the filenam

Re: possible endian bugs in vfat

2001-05-09 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, May 09, Olaf Hering wrote: > the vfat driver doesnt work properly with 2.4.2 and 2.4.5-pre1. The > directory entries appear as "???" when the entry is handled as > unicode(?). this happens on floppy and zip disks on a PowerMac. > > I have one floppy with the filename "urmel.arj". The

possible endian bugs in vfat

2001-05-09 Thread Olaf Hering
Hi, the vfat driver doesnt work properly with 2.4.2 and 2.4.5-pre1. The directory entries appear as "???" when the entry is handled as unicode(?). this happens on floppy and zip disks on a PowerMac. I have one floppy with the filename "urmel.arj". The disk was formated on Win98. The director