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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: xfs_clear_incompat_log_features considered harmful?
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 22:33:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZcXHI5baZZlZsfvi@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240206052329.GR616564@frogsfrogsfrogs>

On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 09:23:29PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > 
> > Well, even with the current code base in Darrick's queue a mount alone
> > won't upgrade features, you need to do an explicit exchrange or online
> > repair operation.  And I think we should basically never do log or
> > other format incompatible changes without an explicit user action.
> 
> Should I add a flags bit to the ioctls so that programs can force them
> on if the process has CAP_SYS_ADMIN?

Please not, that's just a horrible interface.

> Or would you rather a mount option
> "-o allow_log_upgrades=1" so that's totally under control of whoever
> writes fstab?
>
> The first option probably turns into an "and now everyone sets this"
> thing; the second one clutters up the mount options.

Yes, that or a CAP_SYS_ADMIN ioctl on the fs.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-09  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-31 23:00 xfs_clear_incompat_log_features considered harmful? Darrick J. Wong
2024-02-01  4:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-02-05  1:09 ` Dave Chinner
2024-02-05  6:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-02-06  5:23     ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-02-09  6:33       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-02-06  5:30   ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-02-07  0:14     ` Dave Chinner

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