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Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 16:58:13 -0400
From: Xin Zhao <uszhaoxin@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Xin Zhao <uszhaoxin@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: question about Ext2/3 append-only attributes
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I read some specification says that if append-only is set to a
directory, you can only create or modify files in that directory, but
no delete.

But when I tried this attribute on a directory,  I was not able to
create new files in that directory.  let's say the derectory is /dev, 
I set it to be append-only with:

chattr +a /dev.

Then I cannot create new files in it with command cp /dev/aa /dev/bb,
not that aa is a normal text file here.

Why the result conflict with the specification? Is there anyway to
make a directory really append-only? Thanks in advance!

-x
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