Re: knfsd and append-only attribute: "operation not permitted"

[Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>]

fr den 21.01.2005 Klokka 11:23 (-0500) skreiv Aaron D. Ball:

> OK, but that certainly shouldn't preclude read access.  The way it is 
> now, you can't even list append-only directories.  It seems like this 
> check should treat append-only files as read-only, only failing to open 
> them if write access is requested, rather than failing all the time like 
> it does now.

Agreed.

> In this particular case, I'm not using append-only files, but rather 
> using immutable files and append-only directories to create an archival 
> space where things can be added but not changed.  Even if the protocol 
> can't deal with append-only regular files, isn't it possible to allow 
> mkdir but not rmdir?

Append-only directories should be no problem as far as the protocol
goes, and neither should immutable files.

I suggest you take this bug to the NFS mailing list
nfs@lists.sourceforge.net or talk directly to the knfsd maintainer Neil
Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au).

Cheers,
  Trond

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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>