From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Arno Steffen <arno.steffen@googlemail.com>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: mks.jffs2 uid/gid for root inode
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:02:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1283846532.2979.0.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikScro_GmWvVb6SCq5wTzMAfN+c_4Od2SBY+OpO@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 14:12 +0200, Arno Steffen wrote:
> I use mkfs.jffs2 to generate a partition out of a directory tree (not
> the hole root-filesystem).
> It seem the owner of the root point of this directory tree is always
> root:root, althouh it might have other owners.
>
> Example
>
> mkfs.jffs2 -lnp -e 0x20000 -r /opt/rootfs/opt -o /mnt/hgfs/share/fs_opt.jffs2
>
> In my NFS-rootfs /opt/rootfs/opt is owned by user but flashing the
> created jffs file will be mounted as owner root.
> From my point of view this is a bug, as it doesn't care about the real
> owner of this part of filetree.
> Or did I misused the -r option?
>
> I hope you can give me a comment or some feedback, how to change this behaviour.
Sounds like a bug. I'll take a look at this as soon as I have some time.
Or you can send a patch.
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-07 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-03 12:12 mks.jffs2 uid/gid for root inode Arno Steffen
2010-09-07 8:02 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2010-09-09 6:17 ` Arno Steffen
2010-09-09 8:09 ` Artem Bityutskiy
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=SGuBghcHnFoZfe6j3jVxQbKxzSU7t4z+vwPxc@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <1284030609.27765.4.camel@localhost>
2010-09-09 11:54 ` Arno Steffen
2010-09-09 12:05 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-24 9:52 ` Arno Steffen
2010-09-24 9:56 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-24 10:07 ` Arno Steffen
2011-01-17 10:53 ` Arno Steffen
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