Re: [PATCH V2] hfsplus: Add an ioctl to bless files

[Henrik Rydberg]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 03:14:40PM -0500, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Making an hfsplus partition bootable requires the ability to "bless" a
> file by putting its inode number in the volume header. Doing this from
> userspace on a mounted filesystem is impractical since the kernel will
> write back the original values on unmount. Add an ioctl to allow userspace
> to update the volume header information based on the target file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Works nicely, great stuff.

    Tested-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Henrik
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