Message ID | 1360155211-7146-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz |
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State | Accepted, archived |
Headers | show |
On Wed 06-02-13 13:53:31, Jan Kara wrote: > SUSE is carrying out of tree patches for Rich ACL support for ext4 as > they didn't get upstream due to opposition of some VFS maintainers. > Reserve xattr index for Rich ACLs so that it cannot be taken by anything > else which would force users to backup and reset their Rich ACLs on > files. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Ping? Any opinion on this? Honza > --- > fs/ext4/xattr.h | 1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.h b/fs/ext4/xattr.h > index 69eda78..7955773 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.h > +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.h > @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ > #define EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_LUSTRE 5 > #define EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_SECURITY 6 > #define EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_SYSTEM 7 > +#define EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_RICHACL 8 > > struct ext4_xattr_header { > __le32 h_magic; /* magic number for identification */ > -- > 1.7.1 >
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 01:53:31PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > SUSE is carrying out of tree patches for Rich ACL support for ext4 as > they didn't get upstream due to opposition of some VFS maintainers. > Reserve xattr index for Rich ACLs so that it cannot be taken by anything > else which would force users to backup and reset their Rich ACLs on > files. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> I've added this to the ext4 patch queue. Thanks for poking me about this. Cheers, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.h b/fs/ext4/xattr.h index 69eda78..7955773 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.h +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.h @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #define EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_LUSTRE 5 #define EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_SECURITY 6 #define EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_SYSTEM 7 +#define EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_RICHACL 8 struct ext4_xattr_header { __le32 h_magic; /* magic number for identification */
SUSE is carrying out of tree patches for Rich ACL support for ext4 as they didn't get upstream due to opposition of some VFS maintainers. Reserve xattr index for Rich ACLs so that it cannot be taken by anything else which would force users to backup and reset their Rich ACLs on files. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> --- fs/ext4/xattr.h | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)