From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Steve Kenton <skenton@ou.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] udf: Improve uid/gid handling
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 12:56:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180224115607.towx4f6fmqvfx55a@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180222104519.30241-1-jack@suse.cz>
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On Thursday 22 February 2018 11:45:14 Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this patch series improves uid and gid handling for UDF filesystems. In
> particular when uid/gid mount options are used, we make sure even newly created
> and chowned files still belong to the target user/group (UDF now behaves the
> same way as FAT in this mode to be easy to use for removable media). Also when
> the filesystem does not store uid/gid for files, we now present these files as
> belonging to overflow[ug]id instead of invalid ids if uid/gid mount option are
> not used so that at least sysadmin can modify the filesystem.
>
> Honza
Looks good, this should improve handling of uid/gid on removable UDF
filesystems. Add my Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Anyway, I would propose backporting patch "[PATCH 4/5] udf: Provide
saner default for invalid uid / gid" into stable kernels to allow root
user to modify files without uid/gid.
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Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-24 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-22 10:45 [PATCH 0/5] udf: Improve uid/gid handling Jan Kara
2018-02-22 10:45 ` [PATCH 1/5] udf: Ignore [ug]id=ignore mount options Jan Kara
2018-02-22 10:45 ` [PATCH 2/5] udf: Apply uid/gid mount options also to new inodes & chown Jan Kara
2018-02-22 10:45 ` [PATCH 3/5] udf: Clean up handling of invalid uid/gid Jan Kara
2018-02-22 10:45 ` [PATCH 4/5] udf: Provide saner default for invalid uid / gid Jan Kara
2018-02-22 10:45 ` [PATCH 5/5] udf: Update mount option documentation Jan Kara
2018-02-24 11:56 ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2018-02-26 13:40 ` [PATCH 0/5] udf: Improve uid/gid handling Jan Kara
2018-02-26 19:18 ` Pali Rohár
2018-02-27 9:09 ` Jan Kara
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