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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I already backed up the [server] once, I can do it again.
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