Re: xfsprogs-dev: Richacl support

[Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 05:44:42PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> could the richacl feature flag please be added to xfsprogs so that we
> won't end up with incompatible file systems?
> 
>   https://github.com/andreas-gruenbacher/xfsprogs-dev

Can you post patches so we can review them in the normal manner?

> Also, should this really be an incompatible feature flag? Mounting a
> richacl filesystem on a kernel without richacl support would otherwise
> work but it could grant unwanted access to files.

You answered that question yourself here: :)

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2015-10/msg00357.html

i.e. INCOMPAT is fine, becuse RO_INCOMPAT results in unpredictable and
incompatible behaviour from the user perspective...

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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