[Gluster-devel] Gluster and FreeBSD

[Nithya Balachandran]

Hi,

I recently debugged a problem [1] where linkfiles were not created properly
a gluster volume created using bricks running UFS . Whenever a linkfile was
created, the sticky bit was not set on it causing the same file to be
listed twice.

>From  https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chmod&sektion=2

The FreeBSD VM system totally ignores the sticky bit (S_ISVTX) for
executables. On UFS-based file systems (FFS, LFS) the sticky bit may only
be set upon directories.

Based on this I do not think we can support UFS bricks for gluster volumes.
However, I have not worked with FreeBSD so I would like folks who have to
let me know if this is correct or if there is something I am missing.

I was able to force the sticky bit on a file using a testfile attached to
[1] but it is not straightforward and I am reluctant to propose this.

Thanks,
Nithya

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176011
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