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From:   Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:28:12 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] fs: Allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN in s_user_ns to freeze and
 thaw filesystems
To:     Dongsu Park <dongsu@kinvolk.io>
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On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Dongsu Park <dongsu@kinvolk.io> wrote:
> From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
>
> The user in control of a super block should be allowed to freeze
> and thaw it. Relax the restrictions on the FIFREEZE and FITHAW
> ioctls to require CAP_SYS_ADMIN in s_user_ns.

Why is this required for unprivileged fuse?

Fuse doesn't support freeze, so this seems to make no sense in the
context of this patchset.

Thanks,
Miklos