linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/5] vfs: Add additional owner identifier

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Date:	Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:40:11 -0700
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] vfs: Add additional owner identifier

On 2010-03-11, at 11:51, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 04:11:57PM +0300, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
>> Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> writes:
>>> There's really no reason to make this a config option.
>> Project id feature is not likely to be widely used (i hope only
>> at the beginning). Personally this is not bad to avoid config option.
>> At least we will have many new users for free. But I predict
>> many angry voices against enabling this feature by default.
>
> How would those "angry voices" notice this feature?


The embedded folks are continually complaining about kernel bloat.

I don't see it as a bad thing that there is a config option for a  
feature that will likely be used by < 1% of Linux users.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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