On 2007-09-24 12:22 -0400, Ian McDonnell wrote:
> On Monday 24 September 2007 11:55, Wookey wrote:
> > On 2007-09-24 10:14 -0400, Ian McDonnell wrote:
> > > Yaffs has some crazy defaults for 'mode' on root and
> > > lost+found dirs on a new filesystem.  AFAIK once you set
> > > them (chmod) they are persistant.
> >
> > They don't seem to be. Not reliably on our boards anyway. We
> > have to have a chmod 755 in the init scripts otherwise all
> > sorts of mysterious breakage occurs from programs that can't
> > read /etc/passwd or /var/foo (more accurately I think they
> > can't enumerate directories).
> 
> We don't use Yaffs for root, but for two other filesystems.
> These are set to 0755 when we install them, then we don't
> touch them again (on mount), so perhaps root is different
> somehow.
> 
> What about your yaffs' lost+found dir mode?

balloon:~# ls -l / 
drw-rw-rw-  1 root root  2048 Jan  1 00:00 lost+found
balloon:~# chmod 0755 /lost+found/
balloon:~# ls -l /
drwxr-xr-x  1 root root  2048 Jan  1 00:00 lost+found
reboot (& login) - standard debian rootfs
balloon:~# ls -l /
drw-rw-rw-  1 root root  2048 Jan  1 00:00 lost+found

So, yes that's a less annoying place than the root mount itself to analyse the problem. 

> Try this patch.  

Cheers. Will have a go shortly. 

Wookey
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