On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 09:47 -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:13:34PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 02:03:56PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > > > Yeah, the more I think about it the more I agree. It's a simple > > > story - you're creating a file with ownership !you, you need > > > owner_or_cap. > > > > Stupid question --- why not create the file with ownership == you? > > It's a new inode, so this should be trivially easy to do, right? > > Because then you have to change the entire security structure, > and you aren't a snapshot anymore. I won't argue with the security part, but the snapshot part could just as easily be defined by the data and not the inode. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
