diff --git a/fs/udf/inode.c b/fs/udf/inode.c
index 395e582ee5425cab1ad65177d5f8c02bedc9e932..d04cff2273b681a9944f3a319af83114340341cb 100644
--- a/fs/udf/inode.c
+++ b/fs/udf/inode.c
@@ -1045,10 +1045,14 @@ static void udf_fill_inode(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *bh)
 	}
 
 	inode->i_uid = le32_to_cpu(fe->uid);
-	if ( inode->i_uid == -1 ) inode->i_uid = UDF_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_uid;
+	if (inode->i_uid == -1 || UDF_QUERY_FLAG(inode->i_sb,
+					UDF_FLAG_UID_IGNORE))
+		inode->i_uid = UDF_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_uid;
 
 	inode->i_gid = le32_to_cpu(fe->gid);
-	if ( inode->i_gid == -1 ) inode->i_gid = UDF_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_gid;
+	if (inode->i_gid == -1 || UDF_QUERY_FLAG(inode->i_sb,
+					UDF_FLAG_GID_IGNORE))
+		inode->i_gid = UDF_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_gid;
 
 	inode->i_nlink = le16_to_cpu(fe->fileLinkCount);
 	if (!inode->i_nlink)
@@ -1335,10 +1339,14 @@ udf_update_inode(struct inode *inode, int do_sync)
 		return err;
 	}
 
-	if (inode->i_uid != UDF_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_uid)
+	if (UDF_QUERY_FLAG(inode->i_sb, UDF_FLAG_UID_FORGET))
+		fe->uid = cpu_to_le32(-1);
+	else if (inode->i_uid != UDF_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_uid)
 		fe->uid = cpu_to_le32(inode->i_uid);
 
-	if (inode->i_gid != UDF_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_gid)
+	if (UDF_QUERY_FLAG(inode->i_sb, UDF_FLAG_GID_FORGET))
+		fe->gid = cpu_to_le32(-1);
+	else if (inode->i_gid != UDF_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_gid)
 		fe->gid = cpu_to_le32(inode->i_gid);
 
 	udfperms =	((inode->i_mode & S_IRWXO)     ) |
diff --git a/fs/udf/super.c b/fs/udf/super.c
index 4a6f49adc609b051b16bea2e5e59d7719b1e5ed7..368d8f81fe54777c8c0f3a6e2e9d7aac2b912562 100644
--- a/fs/udf/super.c
+++ b/fs/udf/super.c
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ enum {
 	Opt_gid, Opt_uid, Opt_umask, Opt_session, Opt_lastblock,
 	Opt_anchor, Opt_volume, Opt_partition, Opt_fileset,
 	Opt_rootdir, Opt_utf8, Opt_iocharset,
-	Opt_err
+	Opt_err, Opt_uforget, Opt_uignore, Opt_gforget, Opt_gignore
 };
 
 static match_table_t tokens = {
@@ -282,6 +282,10 @@ static match_table_t tokens = {
 	{Opt_adinicb, "adinicb"},
 	{Opt_shortad, "shortad"},
 	{Opt_longad, "longad"},
+	{Opt_uforget, "uid=forget"},
+	{Opt_uignore, "uid=ignore"},
+	{Opt_gforget, "gid=forget"},
+	{Opt_gignore, "gid=ignore"},
 	{Opt_gid, "gid=%u"},
 	{Opt_uid, "uid=%u"},
 	{Opt_umask, "umask=%o"},
@@ -414,6 +418,18 @@ udf_parse_options(char *options, struct udf_options *uopt)
 				uopt->flags |= (1 << UDF_FLAG_NLS_MAP);
 				break;
 #endif
+			case Opt_uignore:
+				uopt->flags |= (1 << UDF_FLAG_UID_IGNORE);
+				break;
+			case Opt_uforget:
+				uopt->flags |= (1 << UDF_FLAG_UID_FORGET);
+				break;
+			case Opt_gignore:
+			    uopt->flags |= (1 << UDF_FLAG_GID_IGNORE);
+				break;
+			case Opt_gforget:
+			    uopt->flags |= (1 << UDF_FLAG_GID_FORGET);
+				break;
 			default:
 				printk(KERN_ERR "udf: bad mount option \"%s\" "
 						"or missing value\n", p);
diff --git a/fs/udf/udf_sb.h b/fs/udf/udf_sb.h
index 663669810be60afbae65f2a262a657f98bfa7f64..110f8d62616f4fa513c0fbd123e7292e92793faf 100644
--- a/fs/udf/udf_sb.h
+++ b/fs/udf/udf_sb.h
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@
 #define UDF_FLAG_VARCONV		8
 #define UDF_FLAG_NLS_MAP		9
 #define UDF_FLAG_UTF8			10
+#define UDF_FLAG_UID_FORGET     11    /* save -1 for uid to disk */
+#define UDF_FLAG_UID_IGNORE     12    /* use sb uid instead of on disk uid */
+#define UDF_FLAG_GID_FORGET     13
+#define UDF_FLAG_GID_IGNORE     14
 
 #define UDF_PART_FLAG_UNALLOC_BITMAP	0x0001
 #define UDF_PART_FLAG_UNALLOC_TABLE	0x0002