From: Chuck (chuck_at_sbbsnet.net)
Date: Fri 16 Sep 2005 - 15:56:49 BST
On Friday 16 September 2005 10:52 am, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> note: the --iunlink sets the 'immutable' flag as well as
> the 'immutable unlink' flag, basically making those files
> immutable against changes, which not even the CoW link
> breaking will break, as they are not hardlinked anymore
>
> the --~iunlink removes both flags and makes them normal
> files again ...
ok now i am totally confused. i thought running --iunlink made the links
breakable/copyable under the 2.1 setups?
so then if --iunlink creates permanent links to files that cannot be touched,
what do i run to take advantage of the 2.1 CoW ?
>
> thanks for the followup!
>
> best,
> Herbert
>
> > > i just copied my template into 3 other vservers using hard link
> > > cloning along with copying real files into the etc and var. they
> > > run ok however I now get an error on start I never got before. I
> > > hope I didn't goof using the setattr
> > > command. error listed next
> > >
> > > davin etc # /etc/init.d/vservers start
> > > * Starting all vservers ...
> > > chroot-shopen("/etc/mtab"): Permission denied
> > > secure-mount: open(<mtab>): Permission denied
> > > Failed to update mtab-file
> > > secure-mount: open(<mtab>): Permission denied
> > > Failed to update mtab-file
> > > secure-mount: open(<mtab>): Permission denied
> > > Failed to update mtab-file
> > >
> > > i just tried setting the attrs mount option on my host / to see if
> > > ithat cures t. didn't have this until I made the 3 other vservers.
> > >
> > > finished reboot and that didn't cure anything :(
> > >
> > > I will say this though.... in converting my 3 vservers into hard
> > > linked clones all 4 servers including the template now take up 1/3
> > > the amount of space they did before this :)
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Chuck
> > >
> > > "...and the hordes of M$*ft users descended upon me in their anger,
> > > and asked 'Why do you not get the viruses or the BlueScreensOfDeath
> > > or insecure system troubles and slowness or pay through the nose
> > > for an OS as *we* do?!!', and I answered...'I use Linux'. "
> > > The Book of John, chapter 1, page 1, and end of book
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > --
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > "...and the hordes of M$*ft users descended upon me in their anger,
> > and asked 'Why do you not get the viruses or the BlueScreensOfDeath
> > or insecure system troubles and slowness or pay through the nose
> > for an OS as *we* do?!!', and I answered...'I use Linux'. "
> > The Book of John, chapter 1, page 1, and end of book
> >
> >
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>
--Chuck
"...and the hordes of M$*ft users descended upon me in their anger, and asked 'Why do you not get the viruses or the BlueScreensOfDeath or insecure system troubles and slowness or pay through the nose for an OS as *we* do?!!', and I answered...'I use Linux'. " The Book of John, chapter 1, page 1, and end of book
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