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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] UDF filesystem uid fix
Finally got around to completing that patch.  Take a look and let me know if it looks good.  I posted it in the thread entitled "[PATCH] udf: fix uid/gid options and add uid/gid=ignore and forget options".  

Phillip Susi wrote:
> Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> Yeah, sounds much better to me. However, I am wondering if we can
>> actually drop the nosave/save cases completely. Wouldn't we get the same
>> semantics by letting uid/gid specify the default id and make the ignore
>> case look like we're always reading -1 from disk, and never writing out
>> any ids? So as a desktop user, you mount with "uid=", "gid=", and
>> "force" passed as mount option and it works as expected.
>
> True, that would work. It would require the addition of another mount
> option though, so I wonder, is that really needed? What problem with
> the current patch would this solve? Is there really a need to save real
> ids to the disk with the current uid option and no force? Keep in mind
> that udf is meant for removable media where the uids aren't going to
> make any sense in another system.
>
>
> Maybe I'm just being lazy though... I'll dig back into it and try to
> submit a new patch with the force option by this weekend.
>

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