Re: [SLUG] User-owned mounts

[James Wilkinson <jamesw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, James Wilkinson generated:

>On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
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>>That's the bit that doesn't though. Anything I change is kept between
>>mounts - would it be saved in the partition itself? I guess it would have to
>>store info about '/' somewhere.
>
>Wild stab: I believe uid/gid can be stored in the superblock of the
>filesystem.

Nope, wrong.  I checked at http://lxr.linux.no/, it's stored in the root 
inode of the filesystem, which would make more sense than storing it in
the superblock.  Although the superblock stores the uid/gid of the user
allowed to use the "special reserve" filesystem space.

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