[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Mount option trap for users

Tue Oct 13 17:27:52 PDT 2009

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> 	Actually, I just realized where we really differ from the other
> filesystems.  We're clustered, but CONFIG_OCFS2_POSIX_ACL isn't a
> feature flag.  We can, in theory, have two nodes.  Both have xattrs
> enabled, but only one has acls compiled into the kernel.  Now we're
> fucked.
> 	As far as I can tell, there is no way for the non-acl driver to
> notice that other nodes are using acls and reject the mount.  Thoughts?

So why do you allow compiling ocfs2 without ACLs at all?