Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: [2.5.73-mm1 XFS] restrict_chown and quotas | From | Steve Lord <> | Date | 25 Jun 2003 10:11:40 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:25:44PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > another question is why is this a filesystem specific option and not a > > generic option ? > > Heh, I wonder the same when this was implemented the first time. > > It should probably move to VFS.
This is all backwards compatibility with folks expecting Irix behavior, and I think on Irix it is even a backwards compatibility thing. If we were not having a major power outage at work right now I could look at Irix and confirm this. Imposing different semantics on the rest of the filesystems did not seem like the right thing to do.
Steve
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