Re: Fwd: XFS merged in 2.4

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:42:34PM -0500, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > ACLs are also available for even many virtual FS in 2.6 now, with many
> > backports going to 2.4 for bugfixes, etc. Since ACLs are part of the XFS
> > code-base, I'd imagine they'd come along. Christoph?
> > 
> 
> As for dmapi - they probably want it at the VFS layer so other FS can 
> implement it, rather than just tunneling through VFS with an ioctl to 
> XFS specific API.

DMAPI is broken by design and can't work reliably with the Linux VFS
design unless you take special care (see the mountpoint option for
it).  It should never go into mainline.