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author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-01-10 23:11:55 +0100 |
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committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-01-10 23:11:55 +0100 |
commit | 1153b375b1478560c68071677a45b6b7accd90d0 (patch) | |
tree | c99c0664fd2ece637c014f5809c03692e1d038b2 /hurd/translator | |
parent | 74083dc7ace2c4cc14f1034d2673ff8bea34d419 (diff) |
Remove some obsolete stuff.
Diffstat (limited to 'hurd/translator')
-rw-r--r-- | hurd/translator/ext2fs/hurd-specific_extensions.mdwn | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/translator/ext2fs/hurd-specific_extensions.mdwn b/hurd/translator/ext2fs/hurd-specific_extensions.mdwn index 774f1cf3..0a1380da 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/ext2fs/hurd-specific_extensions.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/ext2fs/hurd-specific_extensions.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -21,3 +21,13 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] <antrik> well, also a fourth set of permission bits, and an "author" field <braunr> right <antrik> both very obscure features that better never existed... + +The fourth set of permission bits is for unknown users. + +In order to take advantage of these features, the owner/creator of the +partition must be set to *hurd*. `mke2fs`, unless specifically overridden on +the command line (`-o hurd`, for example), will set the default to whatever +system it is running on. At least the root filesystem must be of *hurd* type, +as it has to store various passive translator settings. Even if a file system +is not of the native type, others may still use it; they just may not be able +to use certain extensions. |