From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:56:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id k774tYDW015848 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 21:55:45 -0700 Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:54:43 +1000 From: Nathan Scott Subject: Re: "xfs_io -c chattr +i " on a symlink Message-ID: <20060807145443.C2501392@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> References: <28749.62.159.242.114.1154600816.squirrel@otto.lonx.net> <44D20473.3010304@sandeen.net> <20060804102949.B2401829@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <48367.62.159.242.114.1154691452.squirrel@otto.lonx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48367.62.159.242.114.1154691452.squirrel@otto.lonx.net>; from xfs@lonx.net on Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 01:37:32PM +0200 Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Dan Am Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 01:37:32PM +0200, Dan Am wrote: > On Fri, August 4, 2006 2:29 am, Nathan Scott wrote: > > > ... I think you just set immutable on /tmp. Try a broken symlink, > > instead of one that points to an existing inode. > Nope: Eh? > /data/tara-test > ls -l test > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Aug 4 13:33 test -> /archive/no-such-file > > /data/tara-test > xfs_io -c "chattr +i" test > test: No such file or directory Right, that was my point. As I said, you're out of luck - there is currently no way to do what you want. cheers. -- Nathan