The error "ETXTBSY" and message "Text file busy" is returned from "chown" when trying to change ownership for a file on GFS2 filesystem that is running
Issue
- The error
ETXTBSYand messageText file busyis returned fromchownwhen trying to change ownership for a file on GFS2 filesystem that is running.
# cp `which top` /gfs2
# /gfs2/top -b > /dev/null 2>&1 &
# chown luci /gfs2/top
chown: changing ownership of `/gfs2/top': Text file busy
5959 newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "top", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=68392, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0
5959 fchownat(AT_FDCWD, "top", 500, 4294967295, 0) = -1 ETXTBSY (Text file busy)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
- A Global Filesystem 2(
GFS2) kernel-2.6.32-504+
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