On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:00:21PM +0000, David Jarvie wrote: > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 11:17, David Jarvie wrote: > >Since the latest upgrades to etch a week ago, I've found that file > >attributes (as > >displayed by lsattr) have been getting set in my reiserfs partitions. > >According to > >the documentation, file attributes apply only to ext2 file systems. The > >attributes > >get set randomly on quite a few files, with the 'i' (immutable) and 'a' > >(append- > >only) causing significant trouble since they prevent files being overwritten > >and > >deleted. I have to log in as root and do a chattr to remove them. Quite > >often a > >simple thing like checking out an svn branch will fail because a newly > >checked out > >file or directory will have an attribute set so that it can't be written to. > > > >Something is very wrong if reiserfs file systems don't use file attributes. > >What > has > >changed in etch? How can this be prevented? > > I have managed to track this down. It's covered by a bug report > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351623, and it looks like > I've got > off lightly - it has made some systems completely unusable. It's a bug in the > reiserfs kernel module in linux-image-2.6.15-1, kernel version 2.6.15-4. The > way to > fix it is to add the 'noattrs' option to all reiserfs partitions in > /etc/fstab. Then > do a 'reiserfsck --clean-attributes' on all partitions, and remount.
Are you supposed to leave the noattrs option on forever, or ply during the --clean-attributes? And are the above instructions what you have to do to prevent the problem, or cure it? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
