Re: [PATCH] ext4: Reserve xattr index for Rich ACL support

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Wed 06-02-13 13:53:31, Jan Kara wrote:
> SUSE is carrying out of tree patches for Rich ACL support for ext4 as
> they didn't get upstream due to opposition of some VFS maintainers.
> Reserve xattr index for Rich ACLs so that it cannot be taken by anything
> else which would force users to backup and reset their Rich ACLs on
> files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
  Ping? Any opinion on this?

								Honza
> ---
>  fs/ext4/xattr.h |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.h b/fs/ext4/xattr.h
> index 69eda78..7955773 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.h
> +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.h
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
>  #define	EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_LUSTRE			5
>  #define EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_SECURITY	        6
>  #define EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_SYSTEM			7
> +#define EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_RICHACL		8
>  
>  struct ext4_xattr_header {
>  	__le32	h_magic;	/* magic number for identification */
> -- 
> 1.7.1
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR