From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: [RFC 0/28] Patches to pass vfsmount to LSM inode security hooks Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:31:46 +1100 Message-ID: <17864.22802.571551.987434@notabene.brown> References: <20070205182213.12164.40927.sendpatchset@ermintrude.int.wirex.com> <1170701906.5934.41.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20070205190230.GA23104@infradead.org> <200702051920.36057.agruen@suse.de> <1170751912.6242.30.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20070206094807.GC5328@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Trond Myklebust , Andreas Gruenbacher , Tony Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:36312 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751599AbXBFKcV (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 05:32:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: message from Christoph Hellwig on Tuesday February 6 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tuesday February 6, hch@infradead.org wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:51:52AM -0800, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > Who cares? There is no way to export a partial directory, and in any > > case the subtree_check crap is borken beyond repair (see cross-directory > > renames which lead to actual changes to the filehandle - broken, broken, > > broken!!!!). > > It's getting a little oftopic for this thread, but is there a chance we > could just kill that crap after a resonable deprecation period? Probably. A couple of years? nfs-utils 1.1.0 is due to stop subtree_check from being the default. After that is released, the next kernel can start printing warnings that it might stop working in a couple of years. NeilBrown