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Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:42:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> To: Bauke Jan Douma <bjdouma@...all.nl> cc: vignesh babu <vigneshbabu@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: wierd file perms On Oct 14 2007 14:30, Bauke Jan Douma wrote: >> On Sat, 2007-10-13 22:40:23 +0530, vignesh babu <vigneshbabu@...il.com> >> wrote: >> > I was surprised and did an ls -l on the files and guess what I found: >> > >> > total 0 >> > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? fcntl.c >> > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? fifo.c >> > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? filesystems.c >> > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? file_table.c >> > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? freevxfs >> > >> > So end result is that, Im not able to delete the files or change perms >> > or ownership even as root. >> >> Most probably, your filesystem is broken and needs a fsck. > > I don't think this is a bug, but a feature of 'ls', see for instance > the coreutils mailing list: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-05/msg00226.html - broken on-disk fs - you are not allowed to stat() -- which can only reasonably happen with FUSE or remote filesystems - ls also outputs ?--------- if the file mode does not make sense, though as we can see, UID/GID nlink, etc. are also missing, so I suspect item 2. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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