Frank Lehmann wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> just now I changed from 'jffs2' to 'yaffs'. Up to now no problems occurred
> during compiling and setting up my embedded system with 'yaffs' NAND flash
> partitions in combination with kernel 2.4.25. The MTD driver is working
> fine. Installing and mounting 'yaffs' partitions performed very well.
> No errors when reading from or writing to 'yaffs' partitions. As far as
> good!
> 
> Unfortunately at the end of the day one problem came up. All files or
> directories I create as user (not 'root') are assigned to 'root'.
> For example if I am user 'abc' and I create a file or if I transfer a file
> via FTP to the 'yaffs' partition to any directory which doesn't belong to
> group or user 'root', I always get assigned user and group 'root' to that
> file. After that I can change permissions, user and group.
> 
> Even if I use the setgid and setuid flags (6755) of a directory which
> belongs to user 'abc' and group 'xyz' and where I create or transfer a file,
> the result is always the same. The new file belongs to 'root'.
> 
> It seems that after remounting everything is fine.
> 
> My expectation was that 'yaffs' handles the file/directory attributes in
> same way like other file systems. Maybe I am wrong?
> 
> Any idea what's going wrong? Hints in this regard are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Frank
> 

The attached patch is needed to properly handle attributes of created files.


Luc