linux-ext4 - Re: acl option silently ignored?

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Message-ID: <20140206150937.GA19884@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 6 Feb 2014 10:09:37 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Phillip Susi <psusi@...ntu.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: acl option silently ignored?

On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 09:24:41AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I came across a debian bug report and confirmed that when you remount
> - -o acl, dmesg shows ext4 acknowledging the remount with the acl
> option, but /proc/mounts does not show the acl option.  Is this a
> kernel bug or is it intentional?

The acl mount option is now defaulted on, so it's not a bug that if
you specify the acl option, it won't get displayed in /proc/mounts.
What *is* a bug is that if you specify "mount -o noacl", that doesn't
show up in /proc/mounts.

Cheers,

						- Ted

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