[PATCH] xfs: return ENOSPC when trying to set more ACLs than XFS_ACL_MAX_ENTRIES

[Jeff Liu]

On 12/13 2013 21:04 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 01:36:22PM -0600, Ben Myers wrote:
>>>> (I guess looking at ext4, it uses ENOSPC for some similar constraints,
>>>> so maybe three is precedent for this)
>>> Btrfs also uses ENOSPC, but JFS would return something like "Argument list too long"
>>> in this case.
> 
> I think ENOSPC is a really bad idea in this case, but I also think we
> should make sure Linux filesystems behave unfiformly.
> 
> Jeff, can you write a summary of the errors returned by all common
> filesystems and post it to -fsdevel for comment?  We should have a
> common error for this, and I'd be a happier man if it weren't ENOSPC,
> but that's secondary.
Yep, let me gather up those info...

Thanks,
-Jeff