[Ocfs2-users] Symbolic Link issues in ocfs

[Brendan Beveridge]

Hi All,

Im having an issue with symbolic links permissions with an ocfs2 parition

Basically standard symbolic links lose the owner/group information:
ie
say i have two nodes node1, node2. Both have an ocfs2 partition mounted 
at /opt

I create a symlink on node1:
node1:# ln -s /opt/file /opt/link
node1:# ls -lah  link
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-04-15 15:35 link -> /opt/file

I check node2:
node2:# ls -lah  link
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-04-15 15:35 link -> /opt/file

All looks good

if i change the owner of the link using chmod:
node1:# chown -h user1 /opt/link
node1:# ls -lah  link
# ls -lah  link
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user1 root 9 2008-04-15 15:35 link -> /opt/file
and on node2:
node2:# ls -lah  link
# ls -lah  link
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user1 root 9 2008-04-15 15:35 link -> /opt/file


So now i unmount the ocfs parition on node1, then remount it and check 
the file again:
node1# umount /opt
node1# mount /opt
node1# ls -lah /opt/link
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-04-15 15:35 /opt/link -> /opt/file

Note i have also tested creating the symbolic link as a different user 
rather than chowning the symlink directly, the results are the same, in 
which it loses the owner information after remount

Note that the owner has changed back to root?
Note that standard files do not have this issue



Im relatively new to ocfs, so im not sure what other info is needed,

Im running debian 4.0 with 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 
2008 i686 GNU/Linux
and using ocfs-tools 1.2.1-1.3



Cheers
Brendan Beveridge