From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Henrik Rydberg" Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] hfsplus: Add an ioctl to bless files Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:47:38 +0100 Message-ID: <20120208084738.GA2143@polaris.bitmath.org> References: <20120206174943.GA14225@infradead.org> <1328559280-29111-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: hch@infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1328559280-29111-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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 > --- Works nicely, great stuff. Tested-by: Henrik Rydberg Thanks, Henrik