Subject: Re: [vserver] File permission problem after upgrade
From: "Daniel Hokka Zakrisson" <daniel@hozac.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:11:04 +0200 (CEST)

Matthias Teege wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>> > I cannot remove, touch or mv the file. Reading isn't a problem.
>>
>> Most likely, the file is immutable, without being marked as COW.
>
> Yes, I can work with all files that have no hard links.
>
>> What kernel did you come from? What filesystem are you using?
>
> 2.6.26-vs2.3.0.35.6 and ext3

2.6.26 was one of the known broken kernels, where you need this...

>> For some combinations of the above two answers, the answer will
>> be that you need to stash away your Linux-VServer attributes
>> while running the old kernel, and then restore them again.
>> http://people.linux-vserver.org/~dhozac/t/save-vsdata.sh can
>> help you do that.
>
> As I understand the script it saves the attributes to a file so that i can
> restore the attributes on the new system. Do I have to "reset" all files
> und /vservers?

Yes, the entire filesystem will need it.

-- 
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson