[Yaffs-archive] File permissions problem

[Nick Bane]

Charles,

There seems to be a difference between jffs2 and yaffs in how file
permissions are reported.

This came to light while running an embedded webserver (boa) and using yaffs
for one of its server directories (an Alias as it happens).

Accessing the files out of yaffs results in the server reporting that the
access is forbidden (not "file not found") while under jffs2 all is well. I
made the jffs2 test tree by copying the the original yaffs tree (thus
copying the permissions too) into a mounted blank jffs2 partition and
remounting the jffs2 partition over the yaffs one. Hopefully, only the fs is
differrent.

I noted earlier that copying directories where one directory was a remote
nfs mounted yaffs directory caused errors of the form <cannot create
directory, file already present> yet the directory was not there to begin
with and appears ok after the error (though the "cp -R x y" is aborted).
Interestingly, "cp -R x y" on the target system is fine.

Might these be related?

Nick Bane



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