On Saturday 21 December 2002 08:21 pm, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 02:51:29PM -0500, Oleg wrote: > > That is cmkdir gives an error, but creates a directory, while cattach > > fails altogether. Does anyone know why? And isn't CFS supposed to be file > > system agnostic? > > do a strace, maybe that helps to find the cause. > guessing: it tries to chmod, _that_ fails, > and the error message is misleading... > > look at the sourcecode, you probably will find lazy error checking. > > Lars
Thanks, Lars. Here's what I found out: cmkdir encrypted_directory writes to file "encrypted_directory/...". Apparently, this can not be done with FAT32. Had CFS used another file, such as "..a" instead of "...", it would be able to work with FAT32, I believe. Thanks Oleg CC: maintainter
