OT: redhat

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Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Bill Vermillion done said:
> 
> Clarification please.  Do you mean reiserfs will accept but no use
> it, or that ext2 and ext3 will set it but no use it.
> 
> How do you see if the immuteable flag is set.  In BSD it's the -o
> along with the l flag.  ls -lo  at the minimum.  The chflags in BSD
> also can do more than set immuteable.  You can use it to make
> files append only - so that if a hacker makes it in they can not
> change the log file [as an example], or you can set other things
> such as nodump.

I'll answer both at once.  You change the attribute bits with chattr and
list them with lsattr.  The problem with Reiser is that when you 
chattr +i filename you then do an lsattr filename and find the 'i' bit set.
But it's not honoured.

The documentation states that those utilities are part of the ext2utils.
I've read that they work on ext3 as well (which makes sense).  I'm
-guessing- that they "pretend" to work at all at the VFS layer, but the
actual filesystem module doesn't kick back any fatal errors--just
gracefully ignores the fact that it's there.

> has 250GB drives at $130 and recordable DVD blanks at $0.40 [ TDK ].

Damn, I remember when DVD media was like $2.50+ a crack.

Then again, I also remember when CD-R blanks were $1/ea.  :)

Hell, I remember a day and age when I used to pay $20 as a matter of course
for 10 DS/DD 5.25" floppy disks.

mark->
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