On Oct 24, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Karl Kiniger <karl.kini...@med.ge.com> wrote:

> On Thu 131024, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> dr--------. 1 chris chris   0 Oct 24 16:15 donotmove
>> 
>> [chris@f20s ~]$ mv donotmove/ Videos/
>> mv: cannot move ‘donotmove/’ to ‘Videos/donotmove’: Permission denied'
>> 
>> I own that directory. But because it's read only, I can't move it because 
>> moving it changes it. Of course if I become root, that overrides posix 
>> permissions, but the readonly status of a subvolume isn't like posix 
>> permissions and I see now reason why root should be able to modify it. And 
>> moving it does modify it.
> 
> tries this all as root.
> 
> drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 734 Oct 24 16:41 @20131024  (this is a r/o snap)
> 
> It looks to me similar to a read-only mounted filesystem:
> 
> pc2:/u2/F19/@20131024# touch foo
> touch: cannot touch ‘foo’: Read-only file system
> 
> In what way would a r/o snapshot be modified because of moving its
> "mount point" ? No one is ever doing something inside.

For the same reason I can't move or rename a read only directory even though 
I'm not doing something inside.



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