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Docker mistakes some files for folders, and folders for files.

Posted on Oct 21, 2020 By Jason Liu

1. Docker mistakes some files for folders, and folders for files.
my_image

Root cause:
Could be related to mounting Windows volume onto Linux container, but most files/folders don’t have this problem.

Impact:

rsync: chgrp "/mnt/e/......" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
......
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1207) [sender=3.1.3]

Solution:
It is a Docker bug/limitation. Those files/folders cannot be synced using rsync, but have to be done manually.