Strange mounting issue with ext3

[Cristian KLEIN]

Roderich Schupp a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org> wrote:
>> The proper solution is to make the root of the filesystem owned and/or
>> writable by your user of choice. This is the part you should do after
> 
> This is the traditional Unix answer. But this predates drives as easily
> movable around as an USB stick, because it assumes the user
> (1) has an account on every machine she wants to mount the stick on
> and (2) this account has the _same_ uid on every machine (because
> it's the uid that's stored in the filesystem on the media).
> 
> What is needed here is a new mount option: "forget about the
> uids on the drive, just pretend any file is owned by the mounting user".

Isn't the root of the problem using ext3 on a stick? I mean, a
filesystem with journalling and access control is clearly not suitable
for a removable drives. I think that using other filesystems is the
answer (e.g. UDF?).