Re: [PATCH] mkfs.ubifs: support --squash-uids

Artem Bityutskiy
2008-05-05T08:52:14Z

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 18:46 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Good point. mkfs.jffs2 (from my reading of the source code) squashes
> ownership of files read from the specified root directory, but the
> ownerships specified in the device table are still used. I think that
> makes sense, because you can always specify 0:0 in the device table if
> that's what you need.
>
> However it's not what is implemented by my patch :-) Would you like me
> to fix it up and resubmit, or will you? I applied the squashing at the
> lowest level without realizing the effect on the device table.

I think I can do this, but a bit later. So if it is not urgent for you,
you may want to just wait.

Thanks.