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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst index 7a879ec3b6bf..b9b31066aef2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst @@ -369,6 +369,11 @@ kernel maps the caller's userspace id down into a kernel id according to the caller's idmapping and then maps that kernel id up according to the filesystem's idmapping. +Let's see some examples with caller/filesystem idmapping but without mount +idmappings. This will exhibit some problems we can hit. After that we will +revisit/reconsider these examples, this time using mount idmappings, to see how +they can solve the problems we observed before. + Example 1 ~~~~~~~~~ @@ -656,7 +661,7 @@ idmappings:: mount idmapping: u0:k10000:r10000 Assume a file owned by ``u1000`` is read from disk. The filesystem maps this id -to ``k21000`` according to it's idmapping. This is what is stored in the +to ``k21000`` according to its idmapping. This is what is stored in the inode's ``i_uid`` and ``i_gid`` fields. When the caller queries the ownership of this file via ``stat()`` the kernel |