extended file attributes on external devices

[Callum Lerwick]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 23:34 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently bought a usb-pen-drive to carry all my private data with
> me. I encrypted it with LUKS and created an ext3 file system because I
> wanted a journal. Then I noticed that mounting that drive on another
> machine will cause the uid to be set to the uid from the machine where
> the stick was formatted.
> This is bad. I would consider to make gnome-mount use chown and use the
> uid of the gnome-session owner.
> 
> How about that?

Modifying the entire FS on every mount would be icky, slow and
dangerous.

For what its worth, OSX handles this with its "user 99":

http://unixjunkie.blogspot.com/2007/03/user-99-unknown.html
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