From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 08:25:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120207132523.GA3131@infradead.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>
Looks good, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-07 13:25 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 [this message]
2012-02-08 8:47 ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-02-06 17:31 ` [PATCH V2 1/2] hfsplus: Change finder_info to u32 Christoph Hellwig
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20120207132523.GA3131@infradead.org \
--to=hch@infradead.org \
--cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mjg@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).