From: Andreas Gruenbacher Subject: Re: [PATCH -V5 00/24] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:46:41 +0100 Message-ID: <201103150946.41554.agruen@linbit.com> References: <1298469131-16555-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20110305003214.GF21260@fieldses.org> <87pqq5a1qj.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , "Ted Ts'o" , sfrench@us.ibm.com, dilger.kernel@dilger.ca, sandeen@redhat.com, jlayton@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" Return-path: Received: from mail09.linbit.com ([212.69.161.110]:37855 "EHLO mail09.linbit.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751368Ab1COIsA (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:48:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87pqq5a1qj.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Aneesh, On Saturday 05 March 2011 18:58:12 Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote: > Andreas didn't like the compat feature flag patch. I don't remember why > though. Andreas can you comment on why you didn't want the compat > feature flag ? The mount option made developing and testing of the patch set easier because it didn't require a modification to e2fsprogs. For upstream, the feature flag (*) makes a lot more sense, though. (*) http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kvaneesh/linux-richacl.git;h=fb5c519 Thanks, Andreas