diff -ur pvfs-1.6.3-pre1/mgr/mgr.c pvfs-1.6.3-pre1-fixed/mgr/mgr.c
--- pvfs-1.6.3-pre1/mgr/mgr.c	Thu Jul  1 16:55:04 2004
+++ pvfs-1.6.3-pre1-fixed/mgr/mgr.c	Thu Jul  1 17:13:53 2004
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@
 	meta.u_stat.st_size = req_p->req.truncate.length;
 
 	/* write metadata*/
-	if ((fd = meta_open(data_p, O_RDONLY)) < 0
+	if ((fd = meta_open(data_p, O_WRONLY)) < 0
 	|| (meta_write(fd, &meta) < 0)
 	|| (meta_close(fd) < 0))
 	{