Ownership for a file is not getting changed on a nfs-share, however chown operation is resulting in a success
Issue
- When trying to modify ownership for any file using root on a nfs-share, the operation is completing successfully and it is not throwing any errors.
- However, the actual ownership values are remaining same for the concerned file.
- The users are part of Active Directory.
[username@hostname nfs-share]# ls -l test
drwxrwxrwx 2 root bin 4096 Jan 20 14:37 test
...
[username@hostname nfs-share]# chown ora_lgcy:oinstall test
[username@hostname nfs-share]# chown ora_lgcy:oinstall test
...
[username@hostname nfs-share]# ls -l test
drwxrwxrwx 2 root bin 4096 Jan 20 14:37 test
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- NFSv3
- NetApp
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