From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] vfs: Add additional owner identifier Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:40:11 -0700 Message-ID: <5010E133-F62A-4F97-AB58-73BF30A347ED@sun.com> References: <1267727677-11956-1-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org> <1267727677-11956-2-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org> <20100311120152.GA4706@infradead.org> <87hbonj942.fsf@openvz.org> <20100311185135.GA27145@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Dmitry Monakhov , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara , Al Viro To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from sca-es-mail-2.Sun.COM ([192.18.43.133]:44155 "EHLO sca-es-mail-2.sun.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933868Ab0CKTkT (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:40:19 -0500 In-reply-to: <20100311185135.GA27145@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2010-03-11, at 11:51, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 04:11:57PM +0300, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: >> Christoph Hellwig writes: >>> There's really no reason to make this a config option. >> Project id feature is not likely to be widely used (i hope only >> at the beginning). Personally this is not bad to avoid config option. >> At least we will have many new users for free. But I predict >> many angry voices against enabling this feature by default. > > How would those "angry voices" notice this feature? The embedded folks are continually complaining about kernel bloat. I don't see it as a bad thing that there is a config option for a feature that will likely be used by < 1% of Linux users. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.