linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Reserve xattr index for Rich ACL support

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Date:	Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:14:30 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, jeffm@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Reserve xattr index for Rich ACL support

On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 01:53:31PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> SUSE is carrying out of tree patches for Rich ACL support for ext4 as
> they didn't get upstream due to opposition of some VFS maintainers.
> Reserve xattr index for Rich ACLs so that it cannot be taken by anything
> else which would force users to backup and reset their Rich ACLs on
> files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

I've added this to the ext4 patch queue.  Thanks for poking me about
this.

Cheers,

						- Ted
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