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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 3/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:20:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021008202038.A15692@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210082114.00576.agruen@suse.de>; from agruen@suse.de on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:14:00PM +0200

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:14:00PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Users might just fill up all xattr space leaving no space for ACLs (or 
> similar). If user xattrs are disabled this can no longer occur, so some 
> administrators might be happy to have a choice.

Umm, that's why we have quota..

> With the registration API modules doing HSM/LSM/... can just register handlers 
> without having to modify the file system code. Otherwise we would have to 
> hand code additional hooks for independently loadable modules.

a) if the HSM/whatever is so standalone that it should patch ext2 code
   it is truely generic and thus above the filesystem.
b) you don;t even export the register/unregister to modules, not mention
   other ext2/ext3 core functionality that it would need.
c) looks at the 'would'  there is no such code currently and if it gets
   a real consern it still could be added.  Don't bloat the kernel
   more than you really need to..

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-08 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-08 18:08 [RFC] [PATCH 3/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3 tytso
2002-10-08 18:53 ` [Ext2-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-08 19:14   ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2002-10-08 19:20     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-10-08 20:41       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-10-08 20:47         ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-08 21:19           ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-08 22:17         ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-09 11:29           ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2002-10-09 15:25             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-10-08 22:21   ` Theodore Ts'o
     [not found]     ` <20021009064242.GW3045@clusterfs.com>
2002-10-09 13:09       ` Christoph Hellwig

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