Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762543AbXJMSUB (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:20:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760536AbXJMSTo (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:19:44 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:43370 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758097AbXJMSTm (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:19:42 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:19:33 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Theodore Tso , David Howells , kwc@citi.umich.edu, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record Message-ID: <20071013181933.GJ8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <20071012160519.15119.69608.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20071013181137.GA9051@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071013181137.GA9051@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 623 Lines: 14 On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 02:11:37PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > Hi David, > > I'm going to ask a stupid question, and I probably missed something > in the 52 patches, but.... I see how the credential is used to do > access checks, but why does the credentials record need to passed all > the way into block allocator? What is it used for there? "5% are reserved for root" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/