linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: enable acls and user

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Date:	Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:51:50 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: enable acls and user_xattr by default

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 02:31:01PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> There's no good reason to require the extra step of providing
> a mount option for acl or user_xattr once the feature is configured
> on; no other filesystem that I know of requires this.
> 
> Userspace patches have set these options in default mount options,
> and this patch makes them default in the kernel.  At some point
> we can start to deprecate the options, perhaps.
> 
> For now I've removed default mount option checks in show_options()
> to be explicit about what's set, since it's changing the default,
> but I'm open to alternatives if desired.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

Added to the ext4 patch queue, thanks!!

				- Ted
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