Sven Joachim writes: > > On 2012-09-24 08:37 +0200, Alan Curry wrote: > > > Georgiy Treyvus writes: > >> > >> Finally I had him show me the mount options of the relevant partitions. > >> Many I recognized. Some I did not. I started researching those I did > > > > Did you notice this one?: > > > > Mount options for fat > > (Note: fat is not a separate filesystem, but a common part > > of the > > msdos, umsdos and vfat filesystems.) > > > > [...] > > quiet Turn on the quiet flag. Attempts to chown or chmod files do > > not > > return errors, although they fail. Use with caution! > > > > If you're getting the quiet behavior without the quiet mount option, I'd say > > that's a kernel bug. > > Actually, it's the default unless you're using Linux 2.6.25. This > kernel reported an error to the caller, but since that broke rsync[1,2], > 2.6.26 reverted to the previous behavior of silently ignoring chmod > attempts which do not work on FAT filesystems[3]. > > This bug report should probably be closed.
If the mount man page disagrees with the kernel, it's still a bug in the man page at least. (Also, the rest of the world needs to work around extra stupidity because of rsync?) -- Alan Curry
