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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <877hq9zfef.fsf@openvz.org>
Date:	Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:30:32 +0300
From:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
To:	tytso@....edu
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>, 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

tytso@....edu writes:

> 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
I'll handle this, because currently there are not free bits left in
mount_flags.
> 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