fr den 21.01.2005 Klokka 11:23 (-0500) skreiv Aaron D. Ball: > OK, but that certainly shouldn't preclude read access. The way it is > now, you can't even list append-only directories. It seems like this > check should treat append-only files as read-only, only failing to open > them if write access is requested, rather than failing all the time like > it does now.
Agreed. > In this particular case, I'm not using append-only files, but rather > using immutable files and append-only directories to create an archival > space where things can be added but not changed. Even if the protocol > can't deal with append-only regular files, isn't it possible to allow > mkdir but not rmdir? Append-only directories should be no problem as far as the protocol goes, and neither should immutable files. I suggest you take this bug to the NFS mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] or talk directly to the knfsd maintainer Neil Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Cheers, Trond -- Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
