[Jfs-discussion] Re: jfs reverting permissions?
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From: Dave K. <sh...@au...> - 2005-06-03 19:46:44
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On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 15:17 -0400, Sonny Rao wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:59:10PM -0700, Frederik Eaton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm experiencing a problem on a JFS mount where a certain directory > > becomes non-world-readable every month or so. It started out > > non-world-readable when I initially copied it from a CD, and then I > > changed the permissions to world-readable, but they keep getting > > reverted. It seems to happen in one direction only - it doesn't go > > back and forth. I don't think it's just happening when I reboot. I've > > looked at all the cron jobs on my system and can't find anything that > > would be causing this behavior. So I'm wondering if maybe this is a > > known bug in JFS, or if any other JFS users have seen something > > similar. > > I don't think anyone else has reported such a bug on JFS but the > maintainer (cc'ed on this email) would know for sure. No, I don't remember anybody reporting anything like this. I would suspect a file system bug if the permissions reverted after a short time, such that a change was made in-memory, but was not written to disk. But if it happens roughly every month, it's more likely some outside force is changing the permissions. > Sonny -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center |