Bug#310982: plan to include in sarge 2.4 update
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:27:39PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> The downside is that any sarge users who might be relying on the
> use-the-server-provided-value behavior will no longer have that
> option. I don't understand this case enough to know if it has any
> practical implications. I would guess it means something like if user
> dannf had mounted vorlon's share w/o any mount options, current sarge
> would make those files owned by vorlon locally - but with just this
> kernel patch they'd now be owned by dannf? Unless someone can explain
> this authoritatively, I guess we'll just need to test it.
Yes, with the patch, all the files under the mount will be owned either by
root or by a different user specified as a client option when mounting;
without the patch, they'll be owned by whatever uid the server says they
are.
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