linux-ext4 - Re: How do I clear the append-only flag on symlinks?

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Message-ID: <20111022051644.GD4196@thunk.org>
Date:	Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:16:44 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andrew Lutomirski <andy@...o.us>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How do I clear the append-only flag on symlinks?

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:07:51AM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> By means that are best not admitted to, I managed to mark a large
> chunk of my filesystem append-only, including symlinks.  I cleared the
> flag from all the normal files and directories, but chattr and lsattr
> don't want to operate on symlinks.

Yes.  So how did you set a whole chunk of your file system
append-only?

> Any ideas on how to clear the append-only flags?  debug2fs is a little
> scary, and hacking e2fsprogs to allow operation on symlinks seems to
> affect symlink targets and not the symlinks themselves.

I'd probably hack it into e2fsck, and let it offer to clear the
append-only flag on things that aren't regular files, on the theory
that they should have never been allowed to be set to begin with.

     	  	      	    	 	 - Ted
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