Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Oct 2002 21:47:36 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 3/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3 |
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:41:43PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:20:38PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:14:00PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > > Users might just fill up all xattr space leaving no space for ACLs (or > > > similar). If user xattrs are disabled this can no longer occur, so some > > > administrators might be happy to have a choice. > > > > Umm, that's why we have quota.. > > It's the per-inode extended attribute space that's at risk here, > quotas don't help.
Well, that's a more important problem. But I doubt a hack to just turn off user xattrs is the right fix then. A static reservation for ACLs or just totally separating them (like in XFS) seems more måture. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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