Re: Tough question for oracle DBAs/Solaris Admins. Log shipping.

"tedu" <tu_at_zeitbombe.org> writes:

>immutability is an attribute of the inode. mounting does not affect
>the inodes of the covered filesystem. it would be silly to think the
>attribute applied to a filename. file permissions do not apply to the
>name, why would you expect what amounts to a read-only flag to be
>different?

immutability also prevents a file from being removed or renamed; it is more than an attribute of the filename; it's an attribute of the filename AT THAT LOCATION.

If you want to prevent unlinking then it stands to reason you also prevent mounting on top off.

Casper

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