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. -- David Jarvie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
