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Message-ID: <4F97E5F2.50501@suse.de> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:54:26 +0200 From: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de> To: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Jan Kara (maintainer:EXT2 FILE SYSTEM)" <jack@...e.cz>, "Andrew Morton (maintainer:EXT3 FILE SYSTEM)" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Andreas Dilger (maintainer:EXT3 FILE SYSTEM)" <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>, "\"Theodore Ts'o\" (maintainer:EXT4 FILE SYSTEM)" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] implement uid and gid mount options for ext2, ext3 and ext4 Rob Landley wrote: > On 04/24/2012 10:29 AM, Ludwig Nussel wrote: >> Further development of a patch I sent years ago. I didn't find the >> time to address the concerns raised back then and forgot about the >> patch. Now here it is again. > > The doc bits look fine: > > Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net> > > As for the design: why isn't this in the VFS instead of in ext234? It > seems like VFAT is more likely to need this, and I vaguely recall virtfs > (I.E. 9pfs) doing something similar...? Yes, file systems like FAT that do not store ownership information themselves have a uid option. I agree that handling that in vfs itself would be the more generic solution. It would require more work though. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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