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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:38:54 +0100
From:      Markus Gebert <markus.gebert@hostpoint.ch>
To:        George Mamalakis <mamalos@eng.auth.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: chflags on zfs (sappnd)
Message-ID:  <DCEDCE25-4F26-4FB9-B16E-8EA83F75FB51@hostpoint.ch>
In-Reply-To: <4CE3B320.70302@eng.auth.gr>
References:  <4CE3B320.70302@eng.auth.gr>

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On 17.11.2010, at 11:49, George Mamalakis wrote:

> Hi everbody,
>=20
> from http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS I understand that chflags are =
supported by zfs. But if I have a file with sappnd on a zfs filesystem, =
I am unable to execute a command like this:
>=20
> # touch lili
> # chflags sappnd lili
> # ls -lrto lili
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  sappnd 5 Nov 17 12:38 lili
> # echo "lala" >> lili
> # echo "lala" >> lili
> -su: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
>=20
> So, the first time it worked, but it stops working on any consequent =
time (when the file is no more empty).
> I found a bug report on:
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D149495

And:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D151082&cat=3Dkern


> where a patch is suggested. Nevertheless, even though my sources are =
newer than the suggested patch, my source tree does not contain it.
> Do we know anything more about it?

The fix was committed to CURRENT on Oct 8th (r213634). The commit =
message talks about MFC after a week, however to me it looks like the =
fix hasn't made it to 8-STABLE yet.

Also, there seems to be a related commit r213673 which essentially =
reverts r213634 and has a more general approach to handling ioflags with =
zfs. This commit was on Oct 10th, again 1 week MFC grace period, again =
not in 8-STABLE yet, at least to my knowlegde.

Maybe MFC was simply forgotten, maybe there's a good reason to delay it, =
I don't know. We're using my patch (the one mentioned in the PRs) for =
now and append-only works as intended. Applying the changes in r213673 =
to 8-STABLE might be an option too, if you're considering patching to =
get the append flag working.

Anyway, hopefully one of these fixes gets MFCd to 8-STABLE soon.


Markus





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