On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 20:27 +0100, Ingo wrote: > Hello Dave, > > Good News - it works perfect now! > Many, many THANKS! > > >Maybe putting the patch inline somehow corrupted the formatting of the > >patch. I'm attaching it instead of inlining it. Let me know if it > >applies. > > Sorry for my recent e-mails reporting problems - it was my fault, I am not yet > so familiar with Linux and SUSE 10.0 (did not know that modules are compiled > in two steps).
No problem. I didn't see the first email until you had already sent the second, so I didn't worry about it. > Moreover I now found that in the sources /jfs directory there also is a > MAKEFILE, so > I could have called just 'make' also from that place to just compile jfs. > (next time I'll not have to wait for over 1 hour for output;-) Actually, you can build jfs.o by doing make fs/jfs/ from the linux directory, but I don't know a shortcut to build the .ko file without altering makefiles or the .config file. cd'ing to fs/jfs/ and running make does not work. > Your new features seem to work as predicted (and asked by me) including the > execute-bit for directories if only read-acces is allowed. > > One thing however is worth to be mentioned: > the options for 'mount' must place umask=x first, before you can use uid=y > and gid=z. I don't understand this part. The testing I did (which was against a different kernel) was with "uid=500,gid=100,umask=xxx". What kind of error was reported when you didn't have umask first? > This appears logically, because when no access-bits are set, only root may do > this. > So if no umask= is given, uid= and gid= are refused as parameters - you only > have to know! > My FSTAB now specifies following options (for me myself as owner belonging to > users-group): > > noauto,user,umask=013,uid=1000,gid=100 > > I'll stress the filesystem this weekend and see if all runs smoothly (I am > quite sure it will) > and report everything also to the JFS-discussin group. > > Many, many thanks and have a nice weekend, > Ingo -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
