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Re: [xfs-masters] [Bug 768] New: Move restrict_chown to mount-time opti

To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [xfs-masters] [Bug 768] New: Move restrict_chown to mount-time option
From: Josef Sipek <jsipek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 12:10:06 -0400
Cc: nick.couchman@xxxxxxxxx, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 05:35:29PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:31:54AM -0700, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > We've run into a situation where it would be extremely advantageous to be 
> > able
> > to restrict_chown on certain volumes on a server but not on others.  I'm not
> > real familiar with kernel internals, programming, etc., but I'd like to 
> > suggest
> > that restrict_chown be made a mount option for an XFS filesystem instead of 
> > a
> > system-wide, sysctl/proc option.  This would allow finer control over which
> > filesystems restrict giving away files and which don't.
> 
> It's quite easily doable.  I don't have time for that right now, but if
> anyone wants to do it's just adding the option to the mount option
> parser and adding a flag to the mount structure.
 
Wouldn't making this a generic mount-option make sense? Or is it far too
low-level of a concept?

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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