Here are the important locations in the XFS tree coming from 2.6.32 branch STATIC int xfs_set_acl(struct inode *inode, int type, struct posix_acl *acl) { struct xfs_inode *ip = XFS_I(inode); unsigned char *ea_name; int error; if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) ----------------> I would generally think this is the issue. return -EOPNOTSUPP; STATIC long xfs_vn_fallocate( struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) { long error; loff_t new_size = 0; xfs_flock64_t bf; xfs_inode_t *ip = XFS_I(inode); int cmd = XFS_IOC_RESVSP; int attr_flags = XFS_ATTR_NOLOCK; if (mode & ~(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; STATIC int xfs_ioc_setxflags( xfs_inode_t *ip, struct file *filp, void __user *arg) { struct fsxattr fa; unsigned int flags; unsigned int mask; int error; if (copy_from_user(&flags, arg, sizeof(flags))) return -EFAULT; if (flags & ~(FS_IMMUTABLE_FL | FS_APPEND_FL | \ FS_NOATIME_FL | FS_NODUMP_FL | \ FS_SYNC_FL)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; Perhaps some sort of system level acl's are being propagated by us over symlinks() ? - perhaps this is the related to the same issue of following symlinks? On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri <pkarampu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sent the following patch to remove the special treatment of ENOTSUP here: http://review.gluster.org/7788 > > Pranith > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Kaleb KEITHLEY" <kkeithle@xxxxxxxxxx> >> To: gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx >> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 8:01:53 PM >> Subject: Re: regarding special treatment of ENOTSUP for setxattr >> >> On 05/13/2014 08:00 AM, Nagaprasad Sathyanarayana wrote: >> > On 05/07/2014 03:44 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote: >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >>> From: "Raghavendra Gowdappa" <rgowdapp@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >>> To: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkarampu@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >>> Cc: "Vijay Bellur" <vbellur@xxxxxxxxxx>, gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx, >> >>> "Anand Avati" <aavati@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >>> Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 3:42:16 PM >> >>> Subject: Re: regarding special treatment of ENOTSUP >> >>> for setxattr >> >>> >> >>> I think with "repetitive log message suppression" patch being merged, we >> >>> don't really need gf_log_occasionally (except if they are logged in >> >>> DEBUG or >> >>> TRACE levels). >> >> That definitely helps. But still, setxattr calls are not supposed to >> >> fail with ENOTSUP on FS where we support gluster. If there are special >> >> keys which fail with ENOTSUPP, we can conditionally log setxattr >> >> failures only when the key is something new? >> >> I know this is about EOPNOTSUPP (a.k.a. ENOTSUPP) returned by >> setxattr(2) for legitimate attrs. >> >> But I can't help but wondering if this isn't related to other bugs we've >> had with, e.g., lgetxattr(2) called on invalid xattrs? >> >> E.g. see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=765202. We have a >> hack where xlators communicate with each other by getting (and setting?) >> invalid xattrs; the posix xlator has logic to filter out invalid >> xattrs, but due to bugs this hasn't always worked perfectly. >> >> It would be interesting to know which xattrs are getting errors and on >> which fs types. >> >> FWIW, in a quick perusal of a fairly recent (3.14.3) kernel, in xfs >> there are only six places where EOPNOTSUPP is returned, none of them >> related to xattrs. In ext[34] EOPNOTSUPP can be returned if the >> user_xattr option is not enabled (enabled by default in ext4.) And in >> the higher level vfs xattr code there are many places where EOPNOTSUPP >> _might_ be returned, primarily only if subordinate function calls aren't >> invoked which would clear the default or return a different error. >> >> -- >> >> Kaleb >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-devel mailing list >> Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx >> http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >> > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel -- Religious confuse piety with mere ritual, the virtuous confuse regulation with outcomes _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel