David wrote: > Something that I am curious to learn more about, if anyone has ideas, is > the discussion at the above link about the need to have at least 'chmod > 111' on mountpoint directories. > > I have not found that necessary, and so I wonder if that advice is > outdated, or somehow not relevant to current ext4 on Debian.
It is not relevant to Linux of any distribution that I am aware of. The AIX source code descends from AT&T System V Release 4.3, and has been in IBM's hands every since. Linux was written from scratch almost five years later. > In fact it has been my practice for some years now to 'chown root:' and > 'chmod 0' on all my mountpoints and set the immutable bit on them, to avoid > accidentally writing into directories that are intended only as > mountpoints I don't know any reason not to do that, in those circumstances. -dsr-
