On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:21:16AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Try reverting 800179c9b8a1e796e441674776d11cd4c05d61d7 Or just do: echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/protected_symlinks (or put the equivalent in /etc/sysctl.conf). There is a **very** detailed description of the design decision behind this change (which went in as of 3.6) in the commit description. See: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=800179c9b8a1e796e441674776d11cd4c05d61d7 In any case, it's "working as designed". - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html