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From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: system xattrs in gfs2
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:24:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1254122664.6052.363.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090926163901.GA17978@lst.de>

Hi,

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 18:39 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> It looks like GFS2 allows userspace to set any system xattr, while
> the other filesystems limit it to the two posix ACL xattrs.  I think
> you'd be better off staying in line with the rest - should be
> fairly easy after my xattr handler cleanups.

Yes, I agree. In fact I started working on a patch to fix this on
Friday. I have about half of a patch so far, so I hope it won't be too
long before this can be fixed,

Steve.



      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-28  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-26 16:39 system xattrs in gfs2 Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-28  7:24 ` Steven Whitehouse [this message]

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