> I'm testing SPECsfs against the 2.4.7 cvs XFS patch and it's failing
> the validation phase. The problem is that directories are being
> created with the wrong permissions. You can see it like this:
>
> mount localhost:/export /mnt
> cd /mnt
> umask 0
> mkdir foo
> ls -ld foo
>
> I thought initially it was a nfsd bug, perhaps getting the umask
> wrong, but I found that the bug doesn't happen with ext2. Also,
> creating files does get the right permisisons, but directories are
> wrong.
>
> Any ideas? Known problem perhaps? I'm new to XFS.
>
> Cheers, Tridge
Wow, famous people!
Hmm, I read this message and the fix message, I will take a look later
today, the fact that this does not happen to ext2 suggests there is
still something wrong in xfs - why would a fix in the nfs code be the
correct one if different filesystems exhibit different behaviors?
Steve
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