on 17/11/2010 18:38 Markus Gebert said the following: > > On 17.11.2010, at 11:49, George Mamalakis wrote: > >> Hi everbody, >> >> from http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS I understand that chflags are supported by >> zfs. But if I have a file with sappnd on a zfs filesystem, I am unable to >> execute a command like this: >> >> # touch lili >> # chflags sappnd lili >> # ls -lrto lili >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 5 Nov 17 12:38 lili >> # echo "lala" >> lili >> # echo "lala" >> lili >> -su: echo: write error: Operation not permitted >> >> So, the first time it worked, but it stops working on any consequent time >> (when the file is no more empty). >> I found a bug report on: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=149495 > > And: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=151082&cat=kern > > >> where a patch is suggested. Nevertheless, even though my sources are newer >> than the suggested patch, my source tree does not contain it. >> Do we know anything more about it? > > The fix was committed to CURRENT on Oct 8th (r213634). The commit message > talks about MFC after a week, however to me it looks like the fix hasn't made > it to 8-STABLE yet. > > Also, there seems to be a related commit r213673 which essentially reverts > r213634 and has a more general approach to handling ioflags with zfs. This > commit was on Oct 10th, again 1 week MFC grace period, again not in 8-STABLE > yet, at least to my knowlegde. > > Maybe MFC was simply forgotten, maybe there's a good reason to delay it, I > don't know. We're using my patch (the one mentioned in the PRs) for now and > append-only works as intended. Applying the changes in r213673 to 8-STABLE > might be an option too, if you're considering patching to get the append flag > working. > > Anyway, hopefully one of these fixes gets MFCd to 8-STABLE soon. >
Good analysis, but did you forget to CC the committer(s)? It is known that sometimes the committers do need a gentle (or not so) nudging :-) -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
