From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: bug report: attributes ( chattr +a ) not respected by reiserfs 3,6, but this isn't listed in man mkreiserfs
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 17:10:10 +0400
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To: "D.A.M. Revok" <marvin@synapse.net>
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Hello!

On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:10:07AM -0400, D.A.M. Revok wrote:
> Please declare this in man .*reiser.*
> ( and also in the --help listings for 'em ), since it is kind of 
> important to know *when* one is setting-up a filesystem
> ( rather than after the system's been built... )
> so that no others will try setting 
> chattr +a logfile
> to make it append-only, as part of system-security, because the attribute 
> set is non-meaningful.  ext3 respects this attribute.
> This on SuSE 8.1 Pro and 8.2 Pro's kernel, maybe the stock kernel has it 
> working, but I figure it'd be better to tell you people and let youse 
> sort-it-out.

How do you tell it is not meaningful? Hve you tried to
mount with -o attrs mount option?

Bye,
    Oleg