[OpenAFS] Writing allowed where it's not expected

Jeffrey Altman jaltman@your-file-system.com
Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:32:18 -0400


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On 9/17/2011 5:23 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I currently observe a strange behavior where I can write to a volume
> although I am on a read-only path, like:
>=20
> % pwd
> /afs
> % fs lsm altum.de
> 'altum.de' is a mount point for volume '#altum.de:root.cell'
> % fs lsm .altum.de
> '.altum.de' is a mount point for volume '%altum.de:root.cell'
> % cd altum.de    =20
> % fs lsm sw
> 'sw' is a mount point for volume '#sw'
> % vos listvol rohan a |grep sw
> sw                                536871302 RW          4 K On-line
> sw.readonly                       536871303 RO          3 K On-line
> % ll sw/foo
> zsh: no such file or directory: sw/foo
> % touch sw/foo
> % ll -g -n sw/foo            =20
> -rw------- 1 100 0 2011-09-17 11:14 sw/foo
>=20
> Shouldn't the write operation be prevented, since I am on a read-only
> path?
>=20
> Bye...

fs exa /afs/altum.de/sw

what version of openafs on what operating system?



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