Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:19:35 -0500 | From | Phillip Susi <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] UDF filesystem uid fix |
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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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