Re: [PATCH] 2.6.23: Filesystem capabilities 0.17

[Olaf Dietsche <olaf+list.linux-kernel@olafdietsche.de>]

Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writes:

> On Thu 01-11-07 23:22:51, Olaf Dietsche wrote:
>> 
>> The bits are stored in a sparse file named /.capabilities in the
>> directory of the mount point, where the corresponding executable
>> lives. The inode number of the file is the index into this file.
>   Thanks for explanation. I guess I should warn you a bit :) Quota stores
> it's data (which are in a certain sence filesystem metadata) in regular
> files and believe me it brings some unexpected complexity. Especially
> avoiding deadlocks with journaled filesystems was quite complex for quotas
> (you cannot call filesystem write function when a transaction is already
> started or deadlocks can happen).

Thanks for this hint. I will investigate this, if time permits. To be
honest, I use and test with ext2 exclusively.

>   I guess with capabilities you need to write to the file only in some
> special situations but still you could have problems with that.

Regards, Olaf.