[HCoop-Discuss] afs weirdness

[docelic at hcoop.net]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:59:54AM -0500, Nathan Kennedy wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:36:19 +1100, "David Crawshaw" <crawshaw at hcoop.net>
> wrote:
> > Not important, just strange:
> > 
> > mac:~$ cp hostfs-1.0-port.tgz
> > /afs/hcoop.net/user/c/cr/crawshaw/web/zentus/
> > 
> > mac:~$ mv hostfs-1.0-port.tgz
> > /afs/hcoop.net/user/c/cr/crawshaw/web/zentus/
> > mv: /afs/hcoop.net/user/c/cr/crawshaw/web/zentus/hostfs-1.0-port.tgz:
> > set owner/group (was: 501/501): Operation not permitted
> > 
> > Copy works, move doesn't.

Move works, the files were most probably moved correctly,  only
the 'chown' part of the operation failed.

This is a known behavior in Unix when you are moving files between 
systems that do not have (compatible) permission models, or when you
don't have the permission to chown the files.

-doc