Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 May 2008 09:28:24 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.6.25: 'mkdir -p' does not work with rootdir as mount point inside a read only filesystem |
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On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:08:00AM +0200, Lothar Waßmann wrote: > Hi, > > Willy Tarreau writes: > > > > open(".", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3 > > > > chdir("/") = 0 > > > > mkdir("dev", 0755) = -1 EEXIST (File exists) > ^^^^^^ > [...] > > > This is what strace shows in my case: > > > mkdir("/", 0777) = -1 EEXIST (File exists) > > > stat64("/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 > > > mkdir("/dev/", 0777) = -1 EROFS (Read-only file system) > ^^^^^ > > What puzzles me is why you have this problem only with a new kernel. > > I suspect that previous ones did report EEXIST and now we report > > EROFS for an existing directory on an ro fs. > > > Interestingly your strace output showed a return value of EEXIST where > mine had EROFS.
Oh you're right! I did not notice. There's something odd here. And I can reproduce it right now (2.6.25.1). I really have EEXIST.
Willy
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