Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.2.x and ext2 fs | Date | 10 Mar 1999 05:18:50 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.02A.9903092148570.7192-100000@shell.wt.net> By author: Tom Tom Tom <dumbkid@wt.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 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.
-hpa
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