Hello, I am using AUFS to my diskless Servers, I export a root (xfs via nfs) as RO, and directory as RW (xfs via nfs).
I am using AUFS 20080310 Mounting system root is: mount -n -t aufs -o \ xino=/xino/.aufs.xino,noplink,udba=inotify,nowarn_perm,br:$R \ W=rw:$ADICIONAL=ro+wh:$GERAL=ro+wh:$MAINROOT=ro aufs $NEWROOT In a system WITHOUT aufs i get: 8<----------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /var/lib/php5/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/php5$ ls -ld drwx-wx-wt 2 root root 6 2008-03-11 19:09 . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/php5$ ls ls: .: Permission Denied [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/php5$ touch tt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/php5$ rm tt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/php5$ 8<----------------------- now the problem appears with aufs: 8<----------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /var/lib/php5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/php5$ ls -ld drwx-wx-wt 2 root root 6 2007-05-13 15:30 . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/php5$ ls ls: .: Permission Denied [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/php5$ touch tt touch: cannot touch `tt': Permissão negada [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/php5$ 8<----------------------- if I change permissions to 777: 8<----------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -ld /var/lib/php5 drwx-wx-wt 2 root root 6 2007-05-13 15:30 . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# chmod 7777 /var/lib/php5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -ld /var/lib/php5 drwsrwsrwt 2 root root 41 2008-03-12 17:01 /var/lib/php5 8<----------------------- And re-run tests, things goes fine: 8<----------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/php5$ touch aa [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/php5$ ls ls: .: Permission Denied [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/php5$ rm aa [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/php5$ 8<----------------------- The big question is: Is this a mount parameter problem? Or an AUFS problem? -- Bruno Ribas - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.inf.ufpr.br/ribas C3SL: http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/