From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] vfs: Add additional owner identifier Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:01:52 -0500 Message-ID: <20100311120152.GA4706@infradead.org> References: <1267727677-11956-1-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org> <1267727677-11956-2-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Monakhov Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1267727677-11956-2-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:34:33PM +0300, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: > This patch add project inode identifier. Project ID may be used as > auxiliary owner specifier in addition to standard uid/gid. There's really no reason to make this a config option. And xattrs are a rather bad interfaces to this, so even if a filesystem has to resort to implement the project ID this way, this should be hidden inside the filesystem.