From: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
grendel@debian.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.5.73-mm1 XFS] restrict_chown and quotas
Date: 25 Jun 2003 10:11:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1056553902.1416.61.camel@laptop.americas.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030625153545.A16074@infradead.org>
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:25:44PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > another question is why is this a filesystem specific option and not a
> > generic option ?
>
> Heh, I wonder the same when this was implemented the first time.
>
> It should probably move to VFS.
This is all backwards compatibility with folks expecting Irix behavior,
and I think on Irix it is even a backwards compatibility thing. If we
were not having a major power outage at work right now I could look
at Irix and confirm this. Imposing different semantics on the rest of
the filesystems did not seem like the right thing to do.
Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-25 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-25 9:51 Marek Habersack
2003-06-25 12:51 ` Steve Lord
2003-06-25 13:41 ` Marek Habersack
2003-06-25 14:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-06-25 14:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-25 15:11 ` Steve Lord [this message]
2003-06-25 15:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-25 15:25 ` Steve Lord
2003-06-26 2:00 ` jw schultz
2003-06-25 15:39 ` Marek Habersack
2003-06-25 15:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-25 15:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-25 15:46 ` Marek Habersack
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