From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore T'so" <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extended attribute fixes, etc.
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:07:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030215110732.A17564@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302112018.58862.agruen@suse.de>; from agruen@suse.de on Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:18:58PM +0100
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:18:58PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> The third to fifth are all steps towards trusted extended attributes,
> which are useful for privileged processes (mostly daemons). One use for
> this is Hierarchical Storage Management, in which a user space daemon
> stores online/offline information for files in trusted EA's, and the
> kernel communicates requests to bring files online to that daemon. This
> class of EA's will also find its way into XFS and ReiserFS, and
> expectedly also into JFS in this form. (Trusted EAs are included in the
> 2.4.19/2.4.20 patches as well.)
Please don't do the ugly flags stuff. We have fsuids and fsgids for exactly
that reason (and because we're still lacking a credentials cache..).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-15 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-11 19:18 [PATCH] Extended attribute fixes, etc Andreas Gruenbacher
2003-02-11 20:32 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-12 11:03 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2003-02-15 11:07 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-02-15 17:59 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2003-02-15 18:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-15 19:17 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2003-02-15 21:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-15 21:39 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
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