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From: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@gmail.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A user cannot remove his readonly snapshots?!
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 01:22:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170916012248.0870f72d@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20170915220201.GH32347@rus.uni-stuttgart.de

Am Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:02:01 +0200
schrieb Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>:

> On Fri 2017-09-15 (23:44), Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> > On Fri 2017-09-15 (22:07), Peter Grandi wrote:
> >   
>  [...]  
> > > 
> > > Ordinary permissions still apply both to 'create' and 'delete':  
> > 
> > My user tux is the owner of the snapshot directory, because he has
> > created it!  
> 
> I can delete normal subvolumes but not the readonly snapshots:
> 
> tux@xerus:/test/tux/zz/.snapshot: btrfs subvolume create test
> Create subvolume './test'
> 
> tux@xerus:/test/tux/zz/.snapshot: ll
> drwxr-xr-x  tux      users    - 2017-09-15 18:22:26
> 2017-09-15_1822.test drwxr-xr-x  tux      users    - 2017-09-15
> 18:22:26 2017-09-15_1824.test drwxr-xr-x  tux      users    -
> 2017-09-15 18:57:39 2017-09-15_1859.test drwxr-xr-x  tux
> users    - 2017-09-15 23:58:51 test
> 
> tux@xerus:/test/tux/zz/.snapshot: btrfs subvolume delete test
> Delete subvolume (no-commit): '/test/tux/zz/.snapshot/test'
> 
> tux@xerus:/test/tux/zz/.snapshot: btrfs subvolume delete
> 2017-09-15_1859.test Delete subvolume (no-commit):
> '/test/tux/zz/.snapshot/2017-09-15_1859.test' ERROR: cannot delete
> '/test/tux/zz/.snapshot/2017-09-15_1859.test': Read-only file system

See "man mount" in section btrfs mount options: There is a mount option
to allow normal user to delete snapshots. But this is said to has
security implication I cannot currently tell. Maybe someone else knows.


-- 
Regards,
Kai

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-15 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-15 16:37 A user cannot remove his readonly snapshots?! Ulli Horlacher
2017-09-15 17:08 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-09-15 19:32   ` Ulli Horlacher
2017-09-18 11:36     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-09-15 21:07 ` Peter Grandi
2017-09-15 21:44   ` Ulli Horlacher
2017-09-15 22:02     ` Ulli Horlacher
2017-09-15 23:22       ` Kai Krakow [this message]
2017-09-16  7:36         ` Ulli Horlacher
2017-09-16 11:29           ` Kai Krakow
2017-09-16  9:04         ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2017-09-16  9:22           ` Ulli Horlacher
2017-09-16  9:16       ` Peter Grandi
2017-09-16  8:10 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2017-09-16  8:54   ` Ulli Horlacher
2017-09-16 10:19   ` Ulli Horlacher
2017-09-16 10:43     ` Marat Khalili
2017-09-16 11:47       ` Kai Krakow
2017-09-16 14:28         ` Ulli Horlacher
2017-09-18 11:39           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn

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