linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 08/19] ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function

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Message-ID: <20100218205218.GL5337@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:52:18 -0500
From:	tytso@....edu
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
Cc:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/19] ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization
 with helper function

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:39:54PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> Ted,
> what do you think of just removing the "GRPID" mount option?  I
> believe this was around for ages, due to the lack of BSD setgid-on-
> parent functionality in Linux.  I don't think it is needed anymore,
> since the BSD functionality is much more flexible (it can be set on
> a per-directory basis instead of for the whole filesystem).
> 
> I suppose one way to find out positively would be to add a printk()
> to case Opt_grpid: in the option parsing that this option is
> deprecated, and to contact linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org if you are
> still using it.

There are whole raft of options I'd love to deprecate:

* bsddf/minixdf
* grpid/bsdgroups/nogrpiid/sysvgroups

I also wonder whether it's time that we just enable acls and xattrs
all the time, instead of making them be explicit mount options.

So anyone wants to send me a patch, feel free....  (or I may get to it
maybe this weekend.)

					- Ted
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