Permissions issue with ReiserFS filesystem

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#1

Hi there –

We are utilizing the ReiserFS filesystem on one of our servers. Whenever we try to change the owner and the permissions of one of the directories as root or sudo user, they will eventually revert back to their original owner and permissions.

Original:
drwx------ ahk users archive

Desired:
drwxrwxrwx root root archive

The commands that are being used to change the ownership and permissions of the directory in question are shown below:

root user:

# chown root:root archive
# chmod 777 archive

sudo user:

# chown root:root archive
# chmod 777 archive

The server has not been rebooted in about a month. What could be causing this, and how can it be corrected? Thanks.

#2

kaplan71 wrote:

> Hi there –
>
> We are utilizing the ReiserFS filesystem on one of our servers.
> Whenever we try to change the owner and the permissions of one of the
> directories as root or sudo user, they will eventually revert back to
> their original owner and permissions.

Just a wild-guess, but if the file (or directory) you are trying to change
permissions is inside another folder from which inherits its permissions
and the filesystems is setup to use “acl” (“cat /etc/fstab” would help),
there you have the answer.

Greetings,

–
Camaleón