From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Tue 13 Jul 2004 - 00:19:32 BST
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 07:58:07PM +0000, Liam Helmer wrote:
> Hey Herbert,
>
> We chatted a bit about this on IRC, but I wanted to try and get this
> resolved, so I'll make a more thorough report on the matter:
>
> I'm using kernel 2.6.7 with vserver 1.9.2-rc5.
> The problem I'm running into is with the squashfs file system
> (http://squashfs.sf.net). This bug affects both the development version
> (2.0Alpha) and the stable version (1.3r3).
>
> I'm using the new vserver tools: version 0.29.214. The problem is not
> with the legacy tools, it's only with the new tools/system calls. It
> only affects vserver > 1.9.1... 1.9.1 seems unaffected by this.
>
> So, the simplest test scenario:
>
> 1) Create a squashfs file with binary excecutables in it
> 2) Mount it as a loop device
>
> Then excecute:
> 3) #vcontext --create --xid 100 md5sum /loopdir/*
> 4) #vcontext --create --xid 101 md5sum /loopdir/*
>
> The second command (in context 101) will fail, with each file giving
> permission denied messages.
>
> If you then excecure:
>
> #vcontext --create --xid 100 md5sum /loopdir/*
>
> That will work fine.
>
> Also, if you do md5sum /loopdir/* beforehand from context 0, you'll get
> no errors in either context.
>
> My current theory is that the filesystem cache that squashfs creates for
> one virtual context is unreadeable by other virtual contexts, resulting
> in the permission denied errors. Squashfs is a compressed filesystem, so
> it creates it's own filesystem cache to speed up read times. I've sent
> off a couple of emails to the creator of squashfs as well.
>
> So, do you have any ideas as to how this could be resolved?
yep, seems like the xid is used even on non tagxid
filesystems for new inodes, this is a bug and will
be fixed in the next release ...
thanks,
Herbert
> Thanks!
> Liam
>
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