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SubjectRe: Kernel 2.2.x and ext2 fs
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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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