On Wednesday 22 February 2006 1:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:00:21PM +0000, David Jarvie wrote: >> 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. > >Are you supposed to leave the noattrs option on forever, or ply during >the --clean-attributes? And are the above instructions what you have to >do to prevent the problem, or cure it?
'reiserfsck --clean-attributes' is to cure the problem if you are already using a kernel 2.6.15 with the bug. To prevent the problem occurring on a clean system, simply add 'noattrs' to /etc/fstab reiserfs entries before booting up a faulty kernel. This needs to be done if you upgrade to the buggy kernel, or if you have run 'reiserfsck --clean-attributes' to clean up. Once the kernel bug is fixed, the 'noattrs' option won't be necessary any more. See the above-mentioned bug report for full details. -- David Jarvie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
