[PATCH] mkfs.ubifs: Add support for symlinks in device table

[Richard Weinberger]

David,

Am 18.05.2017 um 17:03 schrieb David Engraf:
>>> You're right the permissions are ignored for symlinks but the user and group id is used. Without this flag mkfs.ubifs takes uid/gid from the local system.
>>
>> IMHO we can just force the uid/gid to 0, no?
> 
> Why? It doesn't make sense to have all uid/gid to 0. This should be decided by the user. The purpose of the device table file is to allow the user to specify the
> permissions/uid/gid to his requirements. mkfs.jffs2 handles it like that as well.

Since the ownership is ignored too, what is the usecase?

Thanks,
//richard