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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:41:43PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:20:38PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:14:00PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > > Users might just fill up all xattr space leaving no space for ACLs (or 
> > > similar). If user xattrs are disabled this can no longer occur, so some 
> > > administrators might be happy to have a choice.
> > 
> > Umm, that's why we have quota..
> 
> It's the per-inode extended attribute space that's at risk here,
> quotas don't help.

Well, that's a more important problem.  But I doubt a hack to just turn off
user xattrs is the right fix then.  A static reservation for ACLs or just
totally separating them (like in XFS) seems more m?ture.
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