Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:07:55 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.2.x and ext2 fs |
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On 10 Mar 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> By author: Tom Tom Tom <dumbkid@wt.net> > > > > See, as long as I did not remount the harddrive, the > > UID will be correct. > > > > Is this the kernel or fs-tools problem? > > It's an ext2 filesystem issue. The current version of ext2 (on Linux) > doesn't support large UIDs. The fix should be quite straightforward, > since ext2 already supports large [UG]IDs on some non-Linux systems.
We should probably start fixing all non-obtrusive things right now so that 32-bit UIDs can be implemented quickly, or at least be distributed as a non-obtrusive patch...
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