On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 02:40:21PM -0800, Jon Forrest wrote: > The other day I posted the description below of a problem > I was having when I was mounting from a Sun 7310 > server using NFSv3 and NFSv4 from a CentOS 5.3 > client. > > It turned out that the solution was trivial - all > I needed to do was to use the "noacl" option > in my NFSv3 mount command. I still think that the > client shouldn't have complained about not > being able to preserve file protections since > it was actually to do so. I still don't understand quite what was happening: in the absence of "noacl", does the client just always claim to support the posix acl xattr's, but return an error when cp attempts to set them? --b. > > I'm still not sure if I should try NFSv4 but that's > another issue. > > Cordially, > > -- > Jon Forrest > Research Computing Support > College of Chemistry > 173 Tan Hall > University of California Berkeley > Berkeley, CA > 94720-1460 > 510-643-1032 > > 1 [nfs3]# touch x > 2 [nfs3]# cp -p x y > 3 cp: preserving permissions for `y': Operation not supported > 4 cp: preserving ACL for `y': Operation not supported > 5 [nfs3]# ls -l > 6 total 1 > 7 -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root 0 Nov 3 14:46 x > 8 -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root 0 Nov 3 14:46 y > 9 [nfs3]# cd /tmp/x/home/jlforrest/nfs4 > 10 [nfs4]# touch x > 11 [nfs4]# cp -p x y > 12 [nfs4]# ls -l > 13 total 1 > 14 -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 0 Nov 3 14:48 x > 15 -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 0 Nov 3 14:48 y > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
