linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v3 33/38] ext4: support idmapped mounts

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Message-ID: <20201201111430.ojt45p4qzjzdab7x@wittgenstein>
Date:   Tue, 1 Dec 2020 12:14:30 +0100
From:   Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 33/38] ext4: support idmapped mounts

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 12:13:20PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 12:02:19PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 11:54:45AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > What is the reason for the config option?  The only thing that it
> > > controls is setting of a single flag.
> > 
> > I wanted to be conservative and give users the option to disable this on
> > their kernel. Would you prefer if I drop it?
> 
> I don't think adding an option per file system scales in any way.  If
> there is some strong urge to disable the functionality (which I see no
> reason for) we could add something like a global sysctl for all on-disk
> file systems.

Sounds reasonable. I'm dropping the config options.

Christian