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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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