linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/5] vfs: Add additional owner identifier

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Message-ID: <20100311120152.GA4706@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:01:52 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] vfs: Add additional owner identifier

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:34:33PM +0300, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> This patch add project inode identifier. Project ID may be used as
> auxiliary owner specifier in addition to standard uid/gid.

There's really no reason to make this a config option.  And xattrs
are a rather bad interfaces to this, so even if a filesystem has to
resort to implement the project ID this way, this should be hidden
inside the filesystem.

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