Problem - reiser4(2004.08.13), apache(2.0.50) and "AllowOverride All"

[Andreas Sundstrom <sunkan@zappa.cx>]

If I enable "AllowOverride All" in apache it can no longer serve files
from reiser4 filesystems.

Here's an error from apache:

(13)Permission denied: /var/www/htdocs/valid-xhtml11.png/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is 
readable, referer: http://zappa.cx/

Some info about the file:
sunkan@zappa:~$ ls -il /var/www/htdocs/valid-xhtml11.png
72832 -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1917 Sep 14  2001 /var/www/htdocs/valid-xhtml11.png

sunkan@zappa:~$ file /var/www/htdocs/valid-xhtml11.png
/var/www/htdocs/valid-xhtml11.png: PNG image data, 88 x 31, 8-bit colormap, non-interlaced

I found this post to be interesting:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&m=109114584717552&w=2

I used this patch to get reiser4 support in my kernel:
http://linux.mjh.name/kernel/patches/reiser4/2004.08.13_2.6.8.1/

So I'm running vanilla 2.6.8.1 except for reiser4.

sunkan@zappa:~/kernel/linux-2.6.8.1-reiser4$ grep REISER .config
CONFIG_REISER4_FS=y
CONFIG_REISER4_LARGE_KEY=y
# CONFIG_REISER4_CHECK is not set
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_SECURITY is not set

sunkan@zappa:~/kernel/linux-2.6.8.1-reiser4$ grep 4KSTACK .config
# CONFIG_4KSTACKS is not set

My guess is that apache tries to open every file as an directory and
if that works it checks wether an .htaccess file is present but that
fails in my case beacause it isn't an directory but a file.

Who's to blame? ;)

Let me know if I need to gather more information about this.

I'm currently not on the list so please CC me if you want fast
responses. (otherwise I read the archives)

Thanks for any help..
/Andreas Sundstrom