From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759123Ab2DYLya (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:54:30 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:50924 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758681Ab2DYLy2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:54:28 -0400 Message-ID: <4F97E5F2.50501@suse.de> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:54:26 +0200 From: Ludwig Nussel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Landley Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Jan Kara (maintainer:EXT2 FILE SYSTEM)" , "Andrew Morton (maintainer:EXT3 FILE SYSTEM)" , "Andreas Dilger (maintainer:EXT3 FILE SYSTEM)" , "\"Theodore Ts'o\" (maintainer:EXT4 FILE SYSTEM)" , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] implement uid and gid mount options for ext2, ext3 and ext4 References: <1335281356-2943-1-git-send-email-ludwig.nussel@suse.de> <4F971936.6070809@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <4F971936.6070809@landley.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rob Landley wrote: > On 04/24/2012 10:29 AM, Ludwig Nussel wrote: >> Further development of a patch I sent years ago. I didn't find the >> time to address the concerns raised back then and forgot about the >> patch. Now here it is again. > > The doc bits look fine: > > Acked-by: Rob Landley > > As for the design: why isn't this in the VFS instead of in ext234? It > seems like VFAT is more likely to need this, and I vaguely recall virtfs > (I.E. 9pfs) doing something similar...? Yes, file systems like FAT that do not store ownership information themselves have a uid option. I agree that handling that in vfs itself would be the more generic solution. It would require more work though. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)