On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 11:39 PM Ciprian Craciun wrote: > On 6/22/22 15:12, Tommy Pettersson wrote: > > Yet another curiosity I have had to deal with is symlink > > properties. The standard says that rwx properties of > > symlinks may be set to anything but should be ignored. All > > filesystems I have used sets them to 777, except for nilfs2, > > which honors the current umask value. Now, rsync, which is > > probably to blame here, tries to update the properties on > > symlinks, and if it reads from nilfs2, and gets something > > other than 777, it can not set this other value if the > > target is not also nilfs2, and will think it has failed. The > > only workaround I have come up with is to find all symlinks > > on nilfs2 and update their permission to 777. > > > I've seen this weird behaviour and doesn't bother me. Ugh, this looks like a bug (or regression). I will look into what's happening. Ryusuke Konishi
