linux-ext4 - Re: the question about ext4 noacl mount option

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Message-ID: <YpYqhq214oofeQAA@mit.edu>
Date:   Tue, 31 May 2022 10:47:34 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     "xuyang2018.jy@...itsu.com" <xuyang2018.jy@...itsu.com>
Cc:     Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: the question about ext4 noacl mount option

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 03:41:32AM +0000, xuyang2018.jy@...itsu.com wrote:
> Hi Teo
> 
> When I use mount option noacl on 5.18-rc2, I got the following warning
> 
> [  179.441511] EXT4-fs: Mount option "noacl" will be removed by 3.5
>                Contact linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org if you think we should
> keep it.

I'm curious... is there a reason why you use noacl?  That is, if we
made the noacl mount option a no-op (that is, it wouldn't disable
Posix ACL's), would it make a difference for your use case?

      	      	       	    - Ted