Re: [PATCH] implement uid and gid mount options for ext2, ext3 andext4

[Rob Landley]

On 04/25/2012 06:54 AM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> 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 <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> 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.

The right thing to do is often more work.  If it allows us to remove
existing duplicate code, even better...

Rob
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