Re: unremovable files and possible fs corruption (2.1.123)

david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
30 Oct 1998 14:28:46 -0800

In article <linux.kernel.71cfjd$tv5$1@work.noris.de>,
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de> wrote:
>
> "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> writes:
>> Theodore Y. Ts'o writes:
>> >
>> > Actually, UFS's two immutable flags (immutable and append-only)
>> > exactly correspond to the two immutable flags we have in ext2fs.
>>
>> No way. UFS has two immutable flags, period. It also two append-only
>> flags.
>
>... which is just plain silly, IMHO.

It may be silly, but there it is. "Sorry, we don't properly support
UFS because we think it's silly" may be intellectually satisfying,
but it certainly won't help the people who want to deal with the
FS as it stands and thus have to write their very own UFS module
so they can properly twiddle those flags.

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