linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/4] reiserfs: allow exposing privroot w/ xattrs enabled

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Message-ID: <4A119C75.3030400@suse.com>
Date:	Mon, 18 May 2009 13:35:49 -0400
From:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ReiserFS Development List <reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] reiserfs: allow exposing privroot w/ xattrs enabled

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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 17 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 17 May 2009, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>>> --- a/fs/reiserfs/dir.c
>>> +++ b/fs/reiserfs/dir.c
>> Hmm. This had no explanation or sign-off. Please? At least the sign-off, 
>> but I think I'd like a log message too, since this adds a new mount option 
>> etc, so it's not like this is some trivial one-liner that doesn't need it.
> 
> Jeff, ping?
> 
> I merged the other three patches, but this one is still pending. I'm not 
> entirely sure it's even appropriate for 2.6.30 (it doesn't _look_ like 
> it's fixing any regressions), but even if you don't actually want me to 
> merge it, can you say so? And if you do want me to merge it, I want the 
> sign-off and fuller log message..

Sorry, I was in and out all weekend. Don't bother merging it for this
window. I wanted to make it easy to clean up xattrs that would have been
left around if a file system that contained xattrs was migrated to a
kernel without support compiled in, but I'll add that to fsck instead.

- -Jeff

- --
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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