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Re: ext2fs and chown



On Wed Oct 21 2009 at 19:16:11 +0200, Juergen Buchmueller wrote:
> I may be posting this to the wrong list and should that be the case,
> please bear with me.
> 
> Since I reorganized my system I have /home mounted on an ext2 partition
> which I also use from Linux. I know that I used to chown directories or
> files when I used mount_ext2fs earlier, so I have no idea why it
> silently fails nowadays. chown does return 0 as result code, and yet
> the directory I wanted to chown remains unchanged. chmod works, just
> chown and chgrp have no effect.

Seems like it was chowned, but a cache value reported by readdir was
just not updated.

Should be fixed now, cvs up src/sys/ufs/ext2fs.


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