On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 06:07:41PM +0530, Nithya Balachandran wrote: > Hi, > > I recently debugged a problem [1] where linkfiles were not created properly > a gluster volume created using bricks running UFS . Whenever a linkfile was > created, the sticky bit was not set on it causing the same file to be > listed twice. > > From https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chmod&sektion=2 > > The FreeBSD VM system totally ignores the sticky bit (S_ISVTX) for > executables. On UFS-based file systems (FFS, LFS) the sticky bit may only > be set upon directories. > > Based on this I do not think we can support UFS bricks for gluster volumes. > However, I have not worked with FreeBSD so I would like folks who have to > let me know if this is correct or if there is something I am missing. > > I was able to force the sticky bit on a file using a testfile attached to > [1] but it is not straightforward and I am reluctant to propose this. > > Thanks, > Nithya > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176011 Giving this thread a signal boost. We should think about this if we're going to continue to support *BSD. Emmanuel, I know you work on NetBSD, but do you have thoughts to add here? -- nigelb _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
