vfat filesystem "fix" breaks rpm kernel install on ia64

Doug Chapman doug.chapman at hp.com
Thu Feb 28 21:03:40 UTC 2008


A recent kernel change has change the behavior of chmod on fat
filesystems:

commit 19c561a60ffe52df88dd63de0bff480ca094efe4
Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at computergmbh.de>
Date:   Wed Feb 6 01:36:08 2008 -0800

    fs/fat/: refine chmod checks


After this change rpm installs of kernels fail on ia64.  This is because
efi systems use vfat for the boot filesystem.  RPM installs fail because
cpio gets a error on chmod (before this kernel change it would fail
silently).

My suggestion was to have anaconda set the "quiet" option (which makes
chmod failures silent) for /boot/efi in fstab however they disagree (see
BZ 435319).

So, it seems like the options are: revert the patch (probably not a good
idea) make "quiet" the default for fat filesystems, or, convince
anaconda to add "quiet" to the fstab.  Or, hopefully someone else has a
better idea.

thanks,

- Doug





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