[PATCH] allow uid= for hfs/hfsplus

[David Zeuthen]

Hi,

Sorry for the lag; been traveling,

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:07 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this patch adds support for uid=/gid= to hfs/hfsplus formated volumes since 
> the filesystem has no own uid/gid abstraction as it looks to me.

HFS+ indeed got the concept of UNIX permissions

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus

so it doesn't make sense to add uid=/gid= support to that. In fact, I
see we've already have uid= support for hfs+ but it actually doesn't
work; I think the hfsplus file system driver just ignores it (as it
should). 

I guess you are trying to solve the HFS+ formatted iPod problem? I don't
think there's any easy way to solve that; unless you get someone to fix
the hfsplus driver. Even if it had some option we'd have to be careful
and only allow use of it for iPods; e.g. we cannot give full write
access to e.g. a Mac OS X formatted disk on a dual-booting Intel Mac. Do
you see the problem?

     David