Re: Read-only error

On Tue, 14 Jul 2026 at 04:20, Left Right <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Oh, fair enough. I made the directory write-only. My bad. So, here's
> the actual behavior:
>
> * Cannot create files in a read-only directory.
> * Can modify files (as in, file metadata s.a. ownership) in the
> read-only directory.
> * Can mount volumes in the read-only directory (as well as unmount).
> * Can list the read-only directory.
> * Can't remove files from read-only directory.
>
> Surprisingly, the explanation is still the same: the list of child
> i-nodes in the directory is stored in the i-node allocated to the
> directory.

So what you're saying is.... newsflash, the contents of a directory is
the directory entries.

Yeah. That's by design. That's the system **working as intended**.

ChrisA