On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 04:13:31PM -0400, Linder, Doug wrote: > I recently created a test zpool (RAIDZ) on some iSCSI shares. I made > a few test directories and files. When I do a listing, I see > something I've never seen before: > > [r...@hostname anewdir] # ls -la > total 6160 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 4 Sep 14 14:16 . > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 5 Sep 14 15:04 .. > -rw------T 1 root other 2097152 Sep 14 14:16 barfile1 > -rw------T 1 root other 1048576 Sep 14 14:16 foofile1 > > I looked up the "T" bit in the man page for ls, and it says that "T" > means "The 1000 bit is turned on, and execution is off (undefined > bit-state)." Which is as clear as mud.
It's the sticky bit. Nowadays it's only useful on directories, and really it's generally only used with 777 permissions. The chmod(1) (man -M/usr/man chmod) and chmod(2) (man -s 2 chmod) manpages describe the sticky bit. Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
