On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 08:35:33PM +0100, James Simmons wrote: > > > From: Robin Humble <plaguedbypenguins@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > The security.capability xattr is used to implement File > > Capabilities in recent Linux versions. Capabilities are a > > fine grained approach to granting executables elevated > > privileges. eg. /bin/ping can have capabilities > > cap_net_admin, cap_net_raw+ep instead of being setuid root. > > > > This xattr has long been filtered out by llite, initially for > > stability reasons (b15587), and later over performance > > concerns as this xattr is read for every file with eg. > > 'ls --color'. Since LU-2869 xattr's are cached on clients, > > alleviating most performance concerns. > > > > Removing llite's filtering of the security.capability xattr > > enables using Lustre as a root filesystem, which is used on > > some large clusters. > > The commit message for this patch is incorrect. Some how it got > mixed up with another patch which I missed in this push. Please > drop this patch and I will resent the correct patches later. Now dropped. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
