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From: "ZINKEVICIUS,MATT (HP-Loveland,ex1)" <matt_zinkevicius@hp.com>
To: "'Stephen Lord'" <lord@sgi.com>,
   "ZINKEVICIUS,MATT (HP-Loveland,ex1)" <matt_zinkevicius@hp.com>
Cc: "'linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com'" <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: RE: link() messes up file attributes
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:58:34 -0800 
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Thanks Steve! This fixed it!

--Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Lord [mailto:lord@sgi.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 12:21 PM
> To: ZINKEVICIUS,MATT (HP-Loveland,ex1)
> Cc: 'linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com'
> Subject: Re: link() messes up file attributes
> 
> 
> ZINKEVICIUS,MATT (HP-Loveland,ex1) wrote:
> 
> >Hi gang,
> >
> >We have been running specSFSv2 (NFS benchmark) against a 
> server running XFS.
> >All was well previously (kernel 2.4.14), but we recently 
> checked out the XFS
> >CVS (2002-01-03) and it now fails. The test fails a part of 
> the validation
> >stage which does the following steps:
> >
> >1) Create a file (file1) with permissions 666
> >2) Create a hardlinked file (file2) to file1
> >3) Check that permissions of file1 are still 666 
> >
> >Step 3 now fails as file1 now has 644 permissions! Using the 
> same kernel we
> >tried ext2 instead and everything behaved normally. If 
> anybody wants anymore
> >detail just let me know.
> >
> >Matt Zinkevicius
> >Software Engineer
> >Network Storage Array Solutions
> >Hewlett-Packard
> >
> Can you try this:
> 
> Edit fs/xfs/linux/xfs_super.c and comment out these lines:
> 
> 
>         fh_to_dentry:           linvfs_fh_to_dentry,
>         dentry_to_fh:           linvfs_dentry_to_fh,
> 
> At around line 907 and try again. I doubt it will fix it, but it is 
> worth a shot.
> This will change the calls NFS uses to interact with XFS.
> 
> Steve
> 
>