From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:48930 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751031AbcBLFlx (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:41:53 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:41:50 -0500 From: "Theodore Ts'o" Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/13] common: remove unneeded mount options for ext4 Message-ID: <20160212054150.GE11298@thunk.org> References: <1455170182-32587-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1455170182-32587-14-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <20160212035709.GY14668@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160212035709.GY14668@dastard> Sender: fstests-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Chinner Cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org, hughd@google.com List-ID: On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 02:57:09PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12:56:22AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > Ext4 has turned on acls and xattrs by default for a long, long time > > (even the 3.10 kernel has it on by default). > > > > Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o > > Hmmm - aren't these really there for transparent support of older > distros that still require these mount options? e.g. RHEL6, older > SLES kernels, etc? Good point. I had forgotten (traumatic memory suppression, no doubt) that there are poor souls who still have to support 2.6.32 kernels. Only four more years before it goes EOL --- in 2020. I'm so glad I don't work in the enterprise space any more. And I thought things were bad with cell phones shipping with 3.10 kernels in 2016. :-) - Ted