Re: Ext2/3 uid/gid support

Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 00:47:41 -0800

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:44:44AM +0100, Erik Meusel wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Just one little question:
>
> Why do ext2 and ext3 not support mount options uid and gid as all the
> other filesystems do?
>

because they have uid and gid within the filesystem itself for directories,
files, pipes, etc stored in the inodes of the fs. Same with any other posix
filesystem (which vfat, iso9660(not counting rockridge), hfs, etc are *not*).

Mike
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