Whoops, you are quite correct. I was not able to figure out why that patch
was committed or why I took it, but it absolutely doesn't fix anything. When
I saw the commit to head, I just assumed it was initialization changes; I
will look a little closer next time. Thanks for catching that!

Bart.


On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Becky Ligon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Bart:
>
> These changes cause the credentials to be set to 0.0, which is root.  So,
> regardless of who you really are, the file gets created as root (or as
> squashed root, if it is turned on).  I don't think we want this change.
> Seems more like these changes were put in the program just for testing.
>
> Becky
> --
> Becky Ligon
> HPC Admin Staff
> PVFS/OrangeFS Developer
> Clemson University
> 864-650-4065
>
> > It looks like this commit is missing from the OrangeFS release as well:
> >
> >
> http://www.pvfs.org/fisheye/browse/PVFS/src/apps/admin/pvfs2-touch.c?r1=1.9&r2=1.10
> >
> > Thanks for looking into these!
> > Bart.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Becky Ligon <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks, Bart!
> >>
> >> I will take a look at them and test with OrangeFS before committing them
> >> to our branch.
> >>
> >> Becky
> >> --
> >> Becky Ligon
> >> HPC Admin Staff
> >> PVFS/OrangeFS Developer
> >> Clemson University
> >> 864-650-4065
> >>
> >> > In April of last year there was a short exchange on this mailing list
> >> > regarding some fixes to root squashing. I believe I provided one patch
> >> and
> >> > Phil or Sam provided another patch or two to fix some issues we were
> >> > seeing.
> >> > The emails indicated that the changes were committed, but the current
> >> > OrangeFS release does not contain them. I attached two patches that
> >> > contain
> >> > the changes we took. I think they will apply cleanly to the current
> >> > release
> >> > if anyone wants to look at them again.
> >> >
> >> > Bart.
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> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
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