[gentoo-user] Re: dir is rwx but can't create file

[Andrey Vul <andrey.vul@gmail.com>]

If / was mounted ro, touch would output strerror(EROFS), not strerror(ENOENT)

On 2010-07-28, Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/28/2010 01:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On Wednesday 28 July 2010 22:20:17 Andrey Vul wrote:
>>> Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch
>>> /tmp/foo => strerror(ENOENT)).
>>> However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root.
>>> df -i shows only 2% inode usage.
>>> Any explanation as to why a rwx-ed dir can't be written to? This is
>>> breaking quite a few of the init scripts.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrey Vul
>>> begin-base64 600 sig
>>> bXNuLCBob21lOiBhbmRyZXkudnVsQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ0KdSBvZiB0OiBhbmRyZXkudnVsQHV0b3J
>>> v bnRvLmNhDQpzbXMsIHZvaWNlbWFpbDogNDE2MzAzOTkyMw0K
>>> `
>>> end
>>
>> sounds like / is mounted read-only
>
> Do read-only filesystems typically reply ENOENT when trying to create a
> file? It's usually something like "read-only filesystem" in that case.
> ENOENT means it can't even find the file.
>
>

-- 
Sent from my mobile device

Andrey Vul
begin-base64 600 sig
bXNuLCBob21lOiBhbmRyZXkudnVsQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ0KdSBvZiB0OiBhbmRyZXkudnVsQHV0b3Jv
bnRvLmNhDQpzbXMsIHZvaWNlbWFpbDogNDE2MzAzOTkyMw0K
`
end