From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] e2fsprogs: enable user namespace xattrs by default
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:53:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5C473D.5030009@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110216214910.GB26780@thunk.org>
On 2/16/11 3:49 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 01:27:39PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 2/16/11 1:15 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>>> On 2011-02-16, at 11:21, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>>> User namespace xattrs are generally useful, and I think extN
>>>> is the only filesystem requiring a special mount option to
>>>> enable them, when xattrs are otherwise available. So this
>>>> change sets that mount option into the defaults.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it be more useful to change this in the kernel, instead of only changing it in the superblock for new filesystems?
>>>
>>
>> I thought about that; maybe it should happen in both places?
>
> Yes, agreed. Maybe we should do the same thing with posix ACL's as
> well? ACL's can only take away access as compared to the unix
> permission bits, so it's safe to enable ACL's.
>
> - Ted
>
Whoops, I didn't realize that acls were in the same boat, of "config on and then turn on with a mount option"
Ok, sure, adding that makes sense to me too...
Is sticking it in the _initialize() function ok with you? It's a little odd, but ...
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-16 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-16 18:12 [PATCH 0/2] e2fsprogs: update mkfs defaults Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 18:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] e2fsprogs: turn off enforced fsck intervals by default Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 18:24 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-02-16 19:12 ` Amir Goldstein
2011-02-16 22:55 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-17 21:55 ` [PATCH 1/2 V2] " Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 18:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] e2fsprogs: enable user namespace xattrs " Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 19:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-02-16 19:27 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 21:49 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-16 21:53 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2011-02-16 22:56 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-16 22:58 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 23:01 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-17 21:56 ` [PATCH 2/2 V2] " Eric Sandeen
2011-02-20 23:31 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-21 17:00 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 0/2] e2fsprogs: update mkfs defaults Andreas Dilger
2011-02-16 22:37 ` Eric Sandeen
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