Re: ext2fs and chown

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

On Wed Oct 21 2009 at 20:37:26 +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Wed Oct 21 2009 at 19:16:11 +0200, Juergen Buchmueller wrote:
> > I may be posting this to the wrong list and should that be the case,
> > please bear with me.
> > 
> > Since I reorganized my system I have /home mounted on an ext2 partition
> > which I also use from Linux. I know that I used to chown directories or
> > files when I used mount_ext2fs earlier, so I have no idea why it
> > silently fails nowadays. chown does return 0 as result code, and yet
> > the directory I wanted to chown remains unchanged. chmod works, just
> > chown and chgrp have no effect.
> 
> Seems like it was chowned, but a cache value reported by readdir was
> just not updated.

Err, ls, not readdir.

> Should be fixed now, cvs up src/sys/ufs/ext2fs.

this still holds ;)