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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
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