Re: Clarification

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 02:27:54AM +0200, 
christian.guggenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> sorry, but I'll need some clarification 'bout that. I just ran
> xfs_fsr on my server's data partitions, where all data is owned by
> non root, i.e. nis+ Users, and I didn't see any allocation
> errors. Would you please give any thougts about what I'm missing?

How old is your kernel?

> What I've just seen, xfs_fsr will run under the same userID as the
> file's owner...

Yes, and in recent kernels a minor security fix means only root and
preallocate space.




  --cw