Re: NFS and umask

[Timothy Shimmin <tes@boing.melbourne.sgi.com>]

Hi James,

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 03:19:35PM +0000, James Pearson wrote:
> I've just had the problem with mkdir ignoring umask when creating
> directories on Linux XFS file systems mounted over NFS.
> 
> I'm using XFS 1.0.2 with kernel 2.4.14-xfs
> 
> Searching the archives, shows that this is a known issue - but are there
> any workarounds/fixes?
> 
This is probably related to a bug with the handling of
the umask in the XFS/ACL code.
(if a default ACL doesn't exist then xfs incorrectly applies
 the umask in the nfsd case)

With ACLs disabled, this bug was fixed in the xfs-kernel 
on January 10 2002. 

With ACLs enabled, this bug still exists and
possible solutions are currently being discussed.

--Tim