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@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
