On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:20:51PM -0400, 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. > > Signed-off-by: Robin Humble <plaguedbypenguins@xxxxxxxxx> > Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-9562 > Reviewed-on: https://review.whamcloud.com/27292 > Reviewed-by: John L. Hammond <john.hammond@xxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Sebastien Buisson <sbuisson@xxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Changelog: > > v1) Initial submit with wrong patch attached. > v2) Proper patch this time. I don't see a v1 patch anywhere... Anyway, when you do this, please make your subject such that I can sort the emails properly and they show up in the correct order, so put the "v2" after the patch number like this: Subject: [PATCH 01/14 v2] staging: lustre: llite: Remove filtering of I think git does that correctly for you automatically if you use it... thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
