Re: File attributes being set in reiserfs partitions
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?
-- hendrik
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