From: "Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@euromail.se>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] hfsplus: Add an ioctl to bless files
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:47:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120208084738.GA2143@polaris.bitmath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328559280-29111-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com>
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 03:14:40PM -0500, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Making an hfsplus partition bootable requires the ability to "bless" a
> file by putting its inode number in the volume header. Doing this from
> userspace on a mounted filesystem is impractical since the kernel will
> write back the original values on unmount. Add an ioctl to allow userspace
> to update the volume header information based on the target file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
> ---
Works nicely, great stuff.
Tested-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Thanks,
Henrik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-08 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-02 20:39 [PATCH V2 1/2] hfsplus: Change finder_info to u32 Matthew Garrett
2012-02-02 20:39 ` [PATCH V2 2/2] hfsplus: Add an ioctl to bless files Matthew Garrett
2012-02-06 17:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-06 17:45 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-02-06 17:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-06 19:32 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-02-06 20:14 ` [PATCH V2] " Matthew Garrett
2012-02-07 13:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-08 8:47 ` Henrik Rydberg [this message]
2012-02-06 17:31 ` [PATCH V2 1/2] hfsplus: Change finder_info to u32 Christoph Hellwig
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