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

[Joel Becker]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 02:27:52AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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?

	You *are* paying attention :-)  I believe this is for hysterical
raisins.  We copied ext3 on this.  I'm totally in support of ripping
ACLs out of Kconfig.

Joel

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