#3260 HIGH First D: file system permission flipped.

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#3260: file system permission flipped.
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  Reporter:  jg      |       Owner:  dwmw2                            
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  reopened                         
  Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0           
 Component:  kernel  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
Resolution:          |    Keywords:                                   
  Verified:  0       |  
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Comment(by mstone):

 None of the evidence we have gathered to this date implicate either JFFS2
 or vserver.

 VServer is unlikely to be involved because the corruption happened on a
 folder in /home, which is essentially never touched by things using
 vserver and because widespread use of vserver's CoW link-breaking did not
 occur until after build 575 (cscott).

 JFFS2 is not known to be involved because the filesystem corruption we
 have observed thus far (#2732) was believed to be fixed in build 553,
 because no mechanism has been proposed for how JFFS2 could have corrupted
 the permissions bits, and because we have not seen any similar corruption
 since.

 Therefore, the most likely explanation that we have yet identified is that
 the /home/olpc/Activities directory was correctly copied from a source
 directory that had permissions 0700.

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3260#comment:8>
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