Subject: Re: [2.5.73-mm1 XFS] restrict_chown and quotas
From: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>, grendel@debian.org,
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Date: 25 Jun 2003 10:11:40 -0500
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On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:25:44PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > another question is why is this a filesystem specific option and not a
> > generic option ?
> 
> Heh, I wonder the same when this was implemented the first time.
> 
> It should probably move to VFS.

This is all backwards compatibility with folks expecting Irix behavior,
and I think on Irix it is even a backwards compatibility thing. If we
were not having a major power outage at work right now I could look
at Irix and confirm this. Imposing different semantics on the rest of
the filesystems did not seem like the right thing to do.

Steve


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