tytso@xxxxxxx writes: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:39:54PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: >> >> Ted, >> what do you think of just removing the "GRPID" mount option? I >> believe this was around for ages, due to the lack of BSD setgid-on- >> parent functionality in Linux. I don't think it is needed anymore, >> since the BSD functionality is much more flexible (it can be set on >> a per-directory basis instead of for the whole filesystem). >> >> I suppose one way to find out positively would be to add a printk() >> to case Opt_grpid: in the option parsing that this option is >> deprecated, and to contact linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if you are >> still using it. > > There are whole raft of options I'd love to deprecate: > > * bsddf/minixdf > * grpid/bsdgroups/nogrpiid/sysvgroups > > I also wonder whether it's time that we just enable acls and xattrs > all the time, instead of making them be explicit mount options. > > So anyone wants to send me a patch, feel free.... (or I may get to it I'll handle this, because currently there are not free bits left in mount_flags. > maybe this weekend.) > > - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
