Re: "xfs_io -c chattr +i " on a symlink

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 09:13:07AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Try just using chattr.

Or not. :)

> [sandeen@sandeen ~]$ ln -s /tmp tmplink
> [sandeen@sandeen ~]$ ls -l tmplink
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 sandeen sandeen 4 Aug  3 09:05 tmplink -> /tmp
> [sandeen@sandeen ~]$ su
> Password:
> [root@sandeen sandeen]# chattr +i tmplink
> [root@sandeen sandeen]# stat -f tmplink
>    File: "tmplink"
>      ID: 802      Namelen: 255     Type: XFS (0x58465342)
> Blocks: Total: 23377204   Free: 8557099    Available: 8557099    Size: 4096
> Inodes: Total: 93554496   Free: 93202008
> [root@sandeen sandeen]#
> [root@sandeen sandeen]# lsattr tmplink
> ----i-------- tmplink

... I think you just set immutable on /tmp.  Try a broken symlink,
instead of one that points to an existing inode.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan