From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andrew Lutomirski <andy@luto.us>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How do I clear the append-only flag on symlinks?
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:16:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111022051644.GD4196@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAObL_7FLTio3+X3iQ3sdHw156OvmjT92_AD0vKTSagNTkaF9fQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:07:51AM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> By means that are best not admitted to, I managed to mark a large
> chunk of my filesystem append-only, including symlinks. I cleared the
> flag from all the normal files and directories, but chattr and lsattr
> don't want to operate on symlinks.
Yes. So how did you set a whole chunk of your file system
append-only?
> Any ideas on how to clear the append-only flags? debug2fs is a little
> scary, and hacking e2fsprogs to allow operation on symlinks seems to
> affect symlink targets and not the symlinks themselves.
I'd probably hack it into e2fsck, and let it offer to clear the
append-only flag on things that aren't regular files, on the theory
that they should have never been allowed to be set to begin with.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-22 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-21 18:07 How do I clear the append-only flag on symlinks? Andrew Lutomirski
2011-10-22 5:16 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2011-10-22 8:57 ` Andrew Lutomirski
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