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 maybe this weekend.) - Ted -- 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
