Re: Some little problems with 2.1.129

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
23 Nov 1998 07:57:36 GMT

Followup to: <365f1d5f.2902179@smtp.erols.com>
By author: alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk (Alex Buell)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 3) I've come across a very annoying but not essentially fatal problem
> with mount and filesystems. Apparently, even with the right
> permissions, and even though I can create/copy files to the target
> file system and these succeeds quite well, Linux complains about
> "illegal operation" even though it does succeed. I'll have a fuller
> report when I get my Linux system back online.
>

DOS filesystems (msdos, vfat, and perhaps others) do this if you do
chown() on the files, since they don't support uid/gid's.

Since "tar" and perhaps other programs do this on every file, this
gets annoying very quickly.

-hpa

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