[Pvfs2-developers] Review: readcaching code

[Sam Lang]

On Aug 30, 2007, at 8:37 AM, Robert Latham wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:43:29PM -0500, Rob Ross wrote:
>> [catching up]
>>
>> I've always thought that the immutable bit meant that the data can't
>> change; deleting is fine.
>
> There's no POSIX standard for fs attributes right?  So we're stuck
> with whatever the man page chattr(1) claims:

I thought no standard meant we could do whatever we want. ;-)
-sam

>
>     "A file with the `i' attribute cannot be modified: it cannot be
>     deleted or  renamed,  no  link  can  be created to this file and
>     no data can be written to the file.  Only the superuser or a
>     process possessing  the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability can set or
>     clear this attribute."
>
> ==rob
>
> -- 
> Rob Latham
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> Argonne National Lab, IL USA                 B29D F333 664A 4280 315B
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