On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 13:20, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:40:59PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > I just got a weird minor irritation recently concerning the VFAT > > filesystem I have mounted in my system. Here's the short summary of it: > > > > % ls -l > > drwxr--r-- 23 root root 8192 1970-01-01 08:00 windows > > What options did you use to mount this partition? (Hint: read the vfat > options for the mount manpage and try the umask=0 option) > > > 1) manipulating the permissions does not work (either using setfacl or > > chmod) > > Of course they won't work. This is VFAT you're talking about.
Yeah. I just remembered. My mistake for my earlier mails claiming otherwise. VFAT doesn't have the concept of permissions, unlike the others :-) > > > 2) touching the timestamps work... until the next mount, wherein it's > > rest back to the start of the epoch. > > Now this is weird... Really weird. The original bug reporter had the timestamp of his mounted VFAT filesystem thrown back to December 31 1969. At least I'm better off than him (mine was just Jan 1 1970 :-) > > 3) no immutable flags have been set; the directory where the VFAT > > filesystem mounted on is on XFS. > > I've dropped using XFS completely because I keep running into data > corruption with my -ck patches. I recently reinstalled on Buwaya, my > home computer. It uses ext3 and VFAT, with whatever software was in Sid > this week. I didn't notice any timestamp problems, but maybe I wasn't > looking hard enough. > > > util-linux version: 2.11y (Debian Sid) > > > > What could have possibly happened (or what I've unwittingly done -- > > aside from using Debian Unstable :-) for this to happen? > > I hope to remember to look at how things are on my computer at home, and > will get back to you about how things are there. I also run Sid, > although not "unwittingly". ;) > > --> Jijo This is actually an outstanding bug in Debian Sid's "mount" package.(bug #171309, reported with util-linux source 2.11x) Workarounds include not mounting a VFAT filesystem or downgrading the mount package . Anyway, I downgraded the mount package to its version in stable (2.11n) and the problem's gone. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
